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Quiz about Little House in the Big Woods Part One

" Little House in the Big Woods" Part One Quiz

Laura Ingalls is a young girl who lives in the "Little House in the Big Woods". Here's a quiz to test your knowledge of the first of the "Little House" books! Have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by dogandpony1023. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
dogandpony1023

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
370,829

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
195

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Question 1 of 10

1. Laura Ingalls is born in the "Big Woods". Where is the "Big Woods"? Hint

St. Paul, Minnesota

Pepin, Wisconsin

Albany, New York

De Smet, North Dakota

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Question 2 of 10

2. Pa is gone to town, and Ma and Laura must go out to milk the cow. What is the cow's name? Hint

Reet

Bessie

Spot

Sukey

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Question 3 of 10

3. Jack Frost makes pictures on the windows in the night. Laura and Mary are allowed to make their own pictures in the frost. What do they use to make their pictures? Hint

The tines of a fork

A small kitchen knife

A thimble

Pa's razor

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Question 4 of 10

4. Ma has a chore for each day of the week. What is Saturday's chore?

Wash on Monday,
Iron on Tuesday,
Mend on Wednesday,
Churn on Thursday,
Clean on Friday,
_____ on Saturday,
Rest on Sunday. Hint

Visit

Sweep

Cook

Bake

5. Ma likes everything to be pretty in her house, so she colors the churned butter yellow. She does this by cooking something in milk and then putting the hot colored milk in the butter churn. What does she cook in the milk? Hint

An egg yolk

Sliced tomatos

Shredded carrot

Pieces of purple cabbage

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Question 6 of 10

6. Pa comes home early from hunting and trapping and he plays a game with Laura and Mary. What is their favorite game to play with Pa? Hint

Hide the Thimble

Checkers

Mad Dog

Hide and Seek

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Question 7 of 10

7. Pa has to make his own bullets and carry them in a bullet pouch. What is Pa's bullet pouch made of? Hint

Beaver pelt

Rawhide

Buckskin

Pigskin

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Question 8 of 10

8. At Christmastime the girls help Ma make candy. They make it by cooking two things together and pouring them into a pan of snow. What are the two items they cook together? Hint

Molasses and sugar

Molasses and honey

Sugar and honey

Syrup and water

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Question 9 of 10

9. Laura gets a rag doll for Christmas that she names "Charlotte". What color are Charlotte's stockings? Hint

Blue

Green

Pink

Red

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Question 10 of 10

10. Something happens to Laura's cousin Charley in the field when he is with Pa and Uncle Henry. What happens to Charley? Hint

He is sprayed by a skunk

He is stung by bees

He is attacked by a wolf

He is attacked by a bear

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Laura Ingalls is born in the "Big Woods". Where is the "Big Woods"?

Answer: Pepin, Wisconsin

Laura Ingalls is born in the "Big Woods" near Pepin, Wisconsin in 1867 to Charles and Caroline Ingalls.

2. Pa is gone to town, and Ma and Laura must go out to milk the cow. What is the cow's name?

Answer: Sukey

Another cow is mentioned later in the book named Rosie, but Sukey is the one Ma and Laura went out to milk. Spot is the name of a cow in another of Laura's books, "Little House on the Prairie".

3. Jack Frost makes pictures on the windows in the night. Laura and Mary are allowed to make their own pictures in the frost. What do they use to make their pictures?

Answer: A thimble

The girls make pretty circles in the frost with a thimble that Ma gives them, but they never spoil the pictures that Jack Frost makes.

4. Ma has a chore for each day of the week. What is Saturday's chore? Wash on Monday, Iron on Tuesday, Mend on Wednesday, Churn on Thursday, Clean on Friday, _____ on Saturday, Rest on Sunday.

Answer: Bake

Laura loves the baking and churning days the best. Although it is hard to imagine how one could have fun churning butter. It's very hard on the arms!

Answer: Shredded carrot

She uses an orange-colored carrot that she shreds on an old tin pan that Pa has made holes in. Heating shredded carrot in milk really does make the milk yellow!

6. Pa comes home early from hunting and trapping and he plays a game with Laura and Mary. What is their favorite game to play with Pa?

Answer: Mad Dog

This is Laura and Mary's favorite game. Pa stands all his hair on end and gets on his hands and knees and chases them. What fun they have!

7. Pa has to make his own bullets and carry them in a bullet pouch. What is Pa's bullet pouch made of?

Answer: Buckskin

Pa's bullet pouch is made of buckskin. He makes it from a buck he shot. A buck is a male deer and a doe is a female deer.

8. At Christmastime the girls help Ma make candy. They make it by cooking two things together and pouring them into a pan of snow. What are the two items they cook together?

Answer: Molasses and sugar

The girls use the cooked molasses and sugar to make curlicues and squiggly things in the pans of snow. This hardens and becomes candy for Christmas. They did get to eat one piece each though before Christmas!

9. Laura gets a rag doll for Christmas that she names "Charlotte". What color are Charlotte's stockings?

Answer: Red

Charlotte has red flannel stockings and black gaiters for shoes. Laura was so happy that she got a rag doll in her stocking!

10. Something happens to Laura's cousin Charley in the field when he is with Pa and Uncle Henry. What happens to Charley?

Answer: He is stung by bees

Three different times Charley screams like he is hurt and Pa and Uncle Henry come running to help. But nothing is wrong with Charley. The fourth time he screams, Pa and Uncle Henry pay no attention to him, and poor Charley is being stung by bees! Charley should never have "cried wolf" so many times!

Source: Author dogandpony1023

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