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1. What name was Laura given at birth?
2. Where was Laura born?
3. Although Laura wrote a set of books about her life, they were not totally true to the sequence of events she experienced. Her books tell how they travelled from the Big Woods to the prairie, and from there to the banks of Plum Creek, but in reality the family went somewhere else between the prairie house and the dugout at Plum Creek. Where did they go?
4. The television programme was based on the town of Walnut Grove in Minnesota. Did this place really exist?
5. The Ingalls family moved to Burr Oak for a brief period, where Pa and Ma ran a hotel. This part of Laura's life was not written about in her set of books because it was a very sad time for the whole family, as her baby brother died before he was a year old. What was his name?
6. The eldest Ingalls daughter, Mary, went blind when she was 14 years old. What was the cause of her loss of sight?
7. Most of the northern half of the United States was plunged into a severe winter during the 1880s, including the little town where the Ingalls family settled. The eighty or so inhabitants who weathered the storms were nearly starved out because food stocks could not be taken to them. In fact, if it were not for two young men who risked their lives to travel to a homestead where wheat had been raised it is likely that none of them would have seen the spring. One of these men was Laura's future husband, Almanzo Wilder, but who was the other one?
8. Did Laura graduate from school?
9. Which member of the family came to work on Almanzo and Laura's homestead, taking care of their flock of sheep?
10. In what month was Laura's daughter Rose born?
Source: Author
ArleneRimmer
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