By The Shores of Silver Lake Trivia Quiz

Answer: Aunt Docia

"She was the pretty Aunt Docia who had worn the dress with buttons that looked like blackberries, long ago at the sugaring-off dance at Grandpa's house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin."

Answer: $50.00 a month

""It pays fifty dollars a month, Charles," she said. A kind of tightness smoothed out of Pa's thin cheeks and his blue eyes lighted up. He said slowly, "Seems like I can draw good pay while I'm looking for that homestead, Caroline.""

Answer: They take the train.

"You and the girls stay here till Mary gets well and strong, say a couple of months. Nelson's agreed to haul our stuff to the depot, and you'll all come out on the train."

Answer: Candy

"It was beautiful Christmas candy, red pieces and yellow pieces and some striped red-and-white. The boy said, "Only ten cents ma'am, one dime." Laura, and Carrie too, knew they could not have that candy. They were only looking at it. Suddenly Ma opened her purse and counted out a nickel and five pennies into the boy's hand.

She took the box and gave it to Carrie. When the boy had gone on, Ma said, excusing herself for spending so much, "After all, we must celebrate our first train ride.""

Answer: Lena and Jean

"It was warm there and smelled of supper on the stove. Aunt Docia said, "Well, Lena and Jean, aren't you going to say anything to your cousins?" "How do you do?" Lena said. Laura and Mary and Carrie all said, "How do you do?""

Answer: The surveyors' house

"That evening Pa came whistling from the store, and blew into the shanty like a breeze. "How'd you like to stay here all winter, Caroline?" he sang out. "In the surveyors' house!" "Oh, Pa! Can we?" Laura cried. "You bet we can!" said Pa. "If your Ma wants to.""

At supper they talked of nothing else. It would be pleasant to live in a snug house; the shanty was cold with wind blowing through its cracks, though the door was shut and a fire was in the stove. "Don't it make you feel rich-----" Laura began. "Doesn't," said Ma. "Doesn't it make you feel rich, Ma, just to think of the whole winter's provisions laid in, already?" said laura. "Not a penny going out till spring," said Pa. "Yes, Laura, it does," Ma smiled. "Your're right, Charles, of course; we must stay."

Answer: Mr. and Mrs. Boast

""Whew!" he said. "This is a humdinger of a cold spell for the night before Christmas. It's too cold for Santa Claus to be out," and his eyes twinkled at Carrie.

This time they all heard a shout. Out in the night , in the storm, a man shouted. And shouted again, quite near the house. Ma started up. "Charles! Who on earth?"

"It's Boast!" Pa cried. "Come in! Come in!" He snatched his coat and cap, jerked them on and went out into the cold.

"He must be nearly frozen!" Ma exclaimed, and she hurried to put more coal on the fire. From outside came voices and Mr. Boast's laugh.

Then the door opened and Pa called, "Here's Mrs. Boast, Caroline. We're going to put up the horses.""

Answer: A hood

"Only the hood was made of the swans-skin. The coat was made of woolen cloth with swans-down cuff and collar.

Ma had taken the swan's skin from its careful wrappings, and cut from it a little hood. The skin was so delicate that Ma trusted no one else to handle that; she sewed every stitch of the hood herself. But she let Laura and Carrie piece out the lining, of scraps of blue silk from the scrap bag. After Ma sewed the swan's-down hood to the lining, it would not tear.

Then Ma looked again in the scrap bag, and chose a large piece of soft blue woolen cloth, that had once been her best winter dress. Out of it she cut a little coat. Laura and Carrie sewed the seams and pressed them; Mary put the tiny stitches in the hem at the bottom. Then on the coat Ma sewed a collar of the soft swan's-down, and put narrow swan's-down cuffs on the sleeves."

Answer: Little cottonwood trees

"She was putting the pan of light biscuits in the oven when Pa came driving the wagon up the hill. Behind him the wagon box was piled high with willow brush that he had brought for summer fuel, for there were no real trees at Lake Henry.

"Hello, Flutterbudget! Let dinner wait, Caroline!" he called. "I've got something to show you as soon as I picket the team."

"There you are, Caroline!" he beamed. "I covered them so they wouldn't dry out in the wind."

"Trees!" Ma exclaimed.
"Little trees!" Laura shouted. "Mary! Pa's brought little trees!"
"They're cottonwoods," Pa said. "They all grew from seeds of the Lone Tree that we saw across the prairie when we were coming out from Brookings.""

Answer: A buffalo wallow

""Where did you find her, Laura?" Ma asked, taking Grace in her arms and sinking into her chair.

"In a---" Laura hesitated, and said, "Pa, could it really be a fairy ring? It is perfectly round. The bottoom is perfectly flat. The bank around it is the same height all the way. You can't see a sign of that place till you stand on the bank. It is very large, and the whole bottom of it is covered solidly thick with violets. A place like that couldn't just happen, Pa. Something made it."

"You are to old to be believing in fairies, Laura," Ma said gently. "Charles, you must not encourage such fancies."

"You are right, Laura; human hands didn't make that place," Pa said. "but your fairies were big, ugly brutes, with horns on their heads and humps on their backs. That place is an old buffalo wallow.""