From Little House on the Prairie

Pa promised Laura that when they came to the West, she would

• go to school

• have her very own room in the new house

• see a papoose

• meet new cousins

After the wagon crossed the rushing creek, Laura tried not to cry when

• Bunny the colt drowned in the creek

• Pa said his fiddle had broken during the crossing

• her only doll fell out and was washed away

• she realized Jack was missing

What happened after Ma hurt her ankle while helping Pa put up the log walls?

• Pa brought home a pair of oxen to help haul the logs from the creek bottom.

• Mr. Scoot drove Ma to see a doctor many mile away at Fort Dodge.

• Laura and Mary did all of Ma's chores for weeks because Ma couldn't walk.

• Pa met Mr. Edwards, who agreed to help him finish building the house.

What did Pa say had happened while he was out exploring on Patty?

• The biggest wolves he had ever seen trotted alongside him for awhile.

• He was confronted by an Indian who tried to take Patty away from him.

• Patty was bitten by a rattlesnake that was hiding in the tall grass.

• He had narrowly missed being trampled by a herd of buffalo.

One day when Pa was away, Ma and the girls were very frightened when...

• Mr. Edwards told them that bandits had been robbing settlers in the area.

• Carrie wandered way and became lost in the tall grass.

• A young bear smelled Ma's blackberry pie and tried to get inside to taste it.

• Two Indians wearing skunk skins came into the house.

Why wouldn't Ma let the girls taste one bite of the watermelon?

• She had never seen a watermelon before and thought it might be poisonous.

• Mrs. Scott said that eating watermelons had caused the fever 'n' ague.

• Mr. Edwards had taken the watermelon from a field without asking permission.

• The Indians in the skunk skins gave it to them, and Ma did not rush them?

Laura and Mary were overjoyed when Mr. Edwards....

• arrived in bad weather with Christmas gifts he said were from Santa

• surprised them with a soft, gray kitten to help keep the mice away

• gave Ma a sack full of goose feathers so she could make them pillows

• brought Jack home after finding him wandering lost out on the prairie

What happened after Laura noticed great black clouds while Pa was plowing?

• Ma and Pa fought a prairie fire that came faster than a horse could run.

• Laura saw cowboys driving a herd of longhorn cattle, toward Independence.

• Hundreds of Cavalry soldiers rode past the house toward the Indian camps.

• A wild tornado raced across the prairie, narrowly missing Laura's home.

Why did Pa decide the family would leave the little house on the prairie?

• Ma wanted to line in Independence, where Laura and Mary could go to school.

• It was in Indian Territory, and the soldiers would make them go anyway.

• Mr. Edwards told Pa of a better opportunity near St. Louis, Missouri.

• All the wheat he had planted withered and died in the fierce Kansas sun.

What had happened to the settlers that Pa called "tenderfeet"?

• They died of the fever 'n' ague before Doctor Ran could get more medicine.

• Cowboys drove cattle across their land, destroying their young crops.

• Someone stole their horses because they did not have a dog to watch them.

• The Indians burned down their cabin when they refused to give them food.