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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 and Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following could cripple the settlers during the winter?
(a) No firewood.
(b) Bitter cold.
(c) Leaks in sod houses.
(d) No food.

2. Where did the prairie women mainly do the family laundry?
(a) A stream.
(b) A kettle.
(c) A well.
(d) A pond.

3. What kind of plow was used to turn the earth?
(a) Sod buster plow.
(b) Earth mover plow.
(c) Breaking plow.
(d) Garden plow.

4. In what year were Native American tribes first forcibly forced to move west of the Mississippi River?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1890.

5. What would announce that the Fourth of July had arrived?
(a) Rifle shots.
(b) Bugle blast.
(c) Cannon blast.
(d) Church bells.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the frontier became settled and a new society emerged, there was a need for _______________.

2. Where was a good place for a man to find a good woman?

3. What was the most-celebrated holiday among prairie families?

4. One way that families made money to fund a church was __________________.

5. The western plains Indians were usually _______________.

(see the answer key)

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