Q 01/05

A 2013 medical study doubted which illness that By the Shores of Silver Lake blames for Mary Ingalls's blindness?

A) Smallpox

B) Scarlet fever

C) Typhoid fever

D) Diphtheria

Answer · why

B) Scarlet fever

Scarlet fever is the cause the book gives, but researchers who combed first-hand accounts and newspaper reports concluded that a viral infection of th...

Q 02/05

In By the Shores of Silver Lake, which animal do Laura and Carrie meet while out on the moonlit ice?

A) An antelope

B) A black bear

C) A panther

D) A wolf

Answer · why

D) A wolf

A wolf is what the sisters encounter on their moonlight walk. When Pa goes out to hunt it the next day, he finds the perfect piece of land for the fam...

Q 03/05

Which old family bulldog dies in his sleep on the morning Pa leaves Plum Creek in By the Shores of Silver Lake?

A) Jack

B) Bandit

C) Shep

D) Rover

Answer · why

A) Jack

Jack dies in the story, but the real bulldog was no longer with the Ingallses by then. Wilder placed his death here to mark Laura's passage out of chi...

Q 04/05

In By the Shores of Silver Lake, Ma and the girls go west to Pa by which means, new to them all?

A) By stagecoach

B) By covered wagon

C) By train

D) By riverboat

Answer · why

C) By train

By train: none of them has ridden one before, and they are thrilled that it covers in a few hours the distance a horse and wagon would manage in a day...

Q 05/05

In By the Shores of Silver Lake, what work does Laura resolve to take up to help send Mary to college?

A) Sewing shirts

B) Teaching school

C) Working as a maid

D) Clerking in a store

Answer · why

B) Teaching school

Teaching school is what Laura decides on once she hears about the college. Helping to pay Mary's way was one of the reasons the real Laura became a te...