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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ma cook outside after they move into the nearly finished house?

2. When did Pet deliver a colt?

3. What does Pa do every morning before going down into the well he is digging?

4. What does Mary sew on when Pa goes back to the creek for more rocks to finish the fireplace?

5. What does Ma put on the mantel when it is finished?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the family stop after traveling for a few hours?

2. How does Pa acquire mustangs and what are the mustangs’ names?

3. Where do the Ingalls stop for supplies and where do they spend the first night on the road? What do they hear that first night?

4. How does Pa finish the fireplace and what does Ma do when he finishes it?

5. What does Laura tell her Pa about Jack and the Indians and what is his response?

6. How does Pa begin to construct the fireplace?

7. Why does Charles Ingalls want to move west?

8. What does Pa do every morning when digging the well with Mr. Scott and what happens to Mr. Scott in the well one morning?

9. How does the house and the barn get doors?

10. What do Laura and Mary do after breakfast?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do you think the reflection of Laura looking back on her life might be very different then her life had actually been? Do you think Laura sees her past as being better than it was? Why or why not? Use examples from Little House on the Prairie to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:

Compare/contrast the characters of Mary and Laura. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples. Compare/contrast the characters of Ma and Pa. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?

Essay Topic 3

Pa's gamble of settling early in Indian territory does not pay off. After receiving conflicting information for several months, the family learns of the government's decision that the white settlers must leave the Indian territory; they will be removed by force if necessary. Pa will not wait for this indignity, so the family leaves.

Compare the ways in which the Ingalls have to leave the home they have built because they have encroached on Indian land to what happens to Indians when they are made to move by the government. Use examples from Little House on the Prairie to support your answer.

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