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Laura Ingalls Wilder Quiz for Experts | People

Welcome to my quiz about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her books.

A multiple-choice quiz by tinakae. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
tinakae

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
52,474

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
16 / 25

Plays
3872

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 38 (12/25), nyirene330 (19/25), daisygirl20 (24/25).

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Question 1 of 25

1. Where was Laura Ingalls Wilder born? Hint

Wisconsin

Missouri

Iowa

South Dakota

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Question 2 of 25

2. What was Laura's 'Pa's name?

Answer: (He's 'in charge'-one word)

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Question 3 of 25

3. What was Laura's youngest sister's name?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 4 of 25

4. What disease caused Mary to go blind? Hint

Tuberculosis

Typhoid Fever

Whooping Cough

Scarlet Fever

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Question 5 of 25

5. Why did the family have to leave their home in the book 'Little House on the Prairie'? Hint

It was too cold there.

The Indians declared war on them.

It burned down.

The government decided not to open it up for white settlement, it belonged to the Indians.

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Question 6 of 25

6. Where did the family go after leaving their home in the book 'Little House on the Prairie'? Hint

Minnesota

Missouri

Iowa

South Dakota

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Question 7 of 25

7. Laura was 15 or 16 when she got her first teaching certificate.

True

False

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Question 8 of 25

8. Who came and got Laura every weekend and took her home during her first teaching job? Hint

Cap Garland

Mr. Edwards

Almanzo

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Question 9 of 25

9. What special present did Santa leave in Laura's stocking at Christmas in 'Little House in the Big Woods'? Hint

A tin whistle

A penny

A rag doll

A tin cup

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Question 10 of 25

10. What was the name of Laura's daughter?

Answer: (One word)

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Question 11 of 25

11. What did Laura and Almanzo call each other? Hint

Tweedledee and Tweedledum

Zo Zo and LaLa

Manly and Beth

Ma and Pa

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Question 12 of 25

12. Where did Laura and Almanzo finally settle and live for the rest of their lives? Hint

Jacksonville, Florida

Independence, Kansas

New York City

Mansfield, Missouri

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Question 13 of 25

13. True or False: Laura and Almanzo had a son.

True

False

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Question 14 of 25

14. What was the name of Laura's bulldog? Hint

Sam

David

Pete

Jack

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Question 15 of 25

15. What did Mr. Edwards leave for Mary after he visited the family in South Dakota? Hint

A twenty dollar bill

A wooden nickel

A braille slate

A hairbrush

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Question 16 of 25

16. What was Almanzo's sister's name, who taught Laura and Carrie for a while? Hint

Mary

Wanda

Eliza Jane

Nellie

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Question 17 of 25

17. Why did the Ingalls family have to get a cat in 'Little Town on the Prairie'? Hint

trouble with gophers

to eat the grasshoppers

Ma wanted one

trouble with mice

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Question 18 of 25

18. What was Laura's first cat's name?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 19 of 25

19. What won Almanzo first prize at the county fair in 'Farmer Boy'? Hint

his horses

his preserves

his pig

his pumpkin

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Question 20 of 25

20. Who was Laura's nemesis in 'On the Banks of Plum Creek' and later, in 'Little Town on the Prairie'?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 21 of 25

21. How did the teacher discipline the 'big boys' in 'Farmer Boy'? Hint

With a ruler

With his fists

With a blacksnake whip

With a gun

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Question 22 of 25

22. Why did the dog Shep run away in 'The First Four Years'? Hint

He didn't like Rose.

They couldn't feed him.

They beat him.

He hated the weather.

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Question 23 of 25

23. Who went into the countryside to find wheat for the starving people in 'The Long Winter'? Hint

Almanzo Wilder and Cap Garland

Mr. Edwards

Laura's Pa

Mr. Foster

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Question 24 of 25

24. What was Laura's first job outside the home? Hint

Teacher

Storekeeper

Hotel Cook

Helping a Seamstress

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Question 25 of 25

25. What did Laura and Mary do when they saw a blizzard was coming and they were home alone with Carrie? Hint

Set a candle in the window

Went to look for Ma and Pa

Brought in the woodpile

Ate all the sugar

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Where was Laura Ingalls Wilder born?

Answer: Wisconsin

This was the setting for 'Little House in the Big Woods'

2. What was Laura's 'Pa's name?

Answer: Charles

Laura's Pa was Charles Ingalls, her Ma was Caroline Quiner Ingalls.

3. What was Laura's youngest sister's name?

Answer: Grace

Grace was the baby of the family who became lost on the prairie in 'By the Shores of Silver Lake'. Laura found her in what she thought was a fairy ring, in reality it was a buffalo wallow.

4. What disease caused Mary to go blind?

Answer: Scarlet Fever

Mary was able to go to a college for the blind in Iowa, with Laura's wages as a teacher helping to pay her tuition.

5. Why did the family have to leave their home in the book 'Little House on the Prairie'?

Answer: The government decided not to open it up for white settlement, it belonged to the Indians.

Their house was three miles over the line, inside Indian Territory.

6. Where did the family go after leaving their home in the book 'Little House on the Prairie'?

Answer: Minnesota

Their first home was a sod dugout on the banks of Plum Creek. They later moved to a wood house, but Pa had trouble paying for it because of a plague of grasshoppers.

7. Laura was 15 or 16 when she got her first teaching certificate.

Answer: True

The legal requirement was 16, but the examiner didn't ask and Laura didn't volunteer the information. She needed the money to help pay Mary's college tuition.
[ historical sources differ on her actual age when she got her first certificate ]

8. Who came and got Laura every weekend and took her home during her first teaching job?

Answer: Almanzo

Laura told Almanzo Wilder that she appreciated him fetching her home, but she wouldn't go out with him when her job was over. She did, though, and later married him.

9. What special present did Santa leave in Laura's stocking at Christmas in 'Little House in the Big Woods'?

Answer: A rag doll

She named the doll Charlotte. It replaced her previous 'doll' which was really only a corncob.

10. What was the name of Laura's daughter?

Answer: Rose

Rose Wilder Lane became a famous novelist and journalist in her own right. She was sent to cover the Vietnam War...at age 78!

11. What did Laura and Almanzo call each other?

Answer: Manly and Beth

It was traditional in Almanzo's family to have one boy of the generation with that name. Laura's middle name was Elizabeth.

12. Where did Laura and Almanzo finally settle and live for the rest of their lives?

Answer: Mansfield, Missouri

The 'Land of the Big Red Apple'. You can visit the Laura Ingalls Wilder homestead and museum just outside of Mansfield and see Pa's fiddle, Laura's jewelry box, and many of their other treasures.

13. True or False: Laura and Almanzo had a son.

Answer: True

They did have a son after they had Rose, but he died of seizures before he was a month old. None of Laura's books even mention his name.

14. What was the name of Laura's bulldog?

Answer: Jack

Sam and David were the Christmas horses from 'On the Banks of Plum Creek'. Jack faithfully followed the family from Wisconsin to Kansas to Minnesota, and died of old age before they left for South Dakota.

15. What did Mr. Edwards leave for Mary after he visited the family in South Dakota?

Answer: A twenty dollar bill

Mr. Edwards put it in her lap and no one noticed until she stood up after he left. It was quite a lot of money, but they couldn't return it...he had already left. They never saw him again.

16. What was Almanzo's sister's name, who taught Laura and Carrie for a while?

Answer: Eliza Jane

'We laugh until we have a pain, at Lazy, Lousy, Lizy Jane!' wrote Laura. (Needless to say, she didn't care for her as a teacher!

17. Why did the Ingalls family have to get a cat in 'Little Town on the Prairie'?

Answer: trouble with mice

Pa caught a mouse chewing off his hair for a nest. They got the kitten before its eyes were open, but soon it could even fight off the biggest dogs in town, and only a new dog could be set on Kitty.

18. What was Laura's first cat's name?

Answer: Black Susan

They left Black Susan in Wisconsin, where she continued to live in the little house they abandoned even after it had been turned into a corn crib.

19. What won Almanzo first prize at the county fair in 'Farmer Boy'?

Answer: his pumpkin

It was a milk-fed pumpkin.

20. Who was Laura's nemesis in 'On the Banks of Plum Creek' and later, in 'Little Town on the Prairie'?

Answer: Nellie Oleson

Laura got her revenge: first when they were little, Laura made Nellie swim in an area where she got covered in leaches. Later, all Nellie wanted was to ride with Almanzo, but Laura got to first.

21. How did the teacher discipline the 'big boys' in 'Farmer Boy'?

Answer: With a blacksnake whip

The older boys from Hardscrabble Hill thought it was great fun to beat up the teacher, and had even killed one of them. But Almanzo's teacher used a blacksnake whip on the leader, and they never bothered him again.

22. Why did the dog Shep run away in 'The First Four Years'?

Answer: He didn't like Rose.

They got another dog later, Nero, who thought it was his duty to watch over and protect baby Rose.

23. Who went into the countryside to find wheat for the starving people in 'The Long Winter'?

Answer: Almanzo Wilder and Cap Garland

They nearly got caught in a blizzard, but they got the wheat and the townspeople were saved from certain starvation.

24. What was Laura's first job outside the home?

Answer: Helping a Seamstress

Laura sewed buttons and did other work in town for a while to raise money to help Mary go to college.

25. What did Laura and Mary do when they saw a blizzard was coming and they were home alone with Carrie?

Answer: Brought in the woodpile

Laura was afraid they would have to burn up all the furniture and then freeze to death.

Source: Author tinakae

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