Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Joanna Stratton
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Joanna Stratton
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following diseases was common among the Kansas settlers?
(a) Measles.
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Cholera.

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

3. Why did prairie women tend to do more typically male jobs than before?
(a) They signed a contract.
(b) Shortage of labor.
(c) To get the homestead started faster.
(d) Their husbands died early.

4. What was the nickname for sod blocks?
(a) Prairie marble.
(b) Prairie manna.
(c) Grass bricks.
(d) Grass stacks.

5. What was the mode of transportation chosen by families to reach Kansas?
(a) Train.
(b) Boat.
(c) Stagecoach.
(d) Covered wagon.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city had the Kansas Pacific Railroad reached by 1870?

2. What was the weight of the average sod house?

3. Some prairie women were called upon to perform minor surgery and to ______________.

4. What was the most valued source of fuel on the prairie?

5. What was a popular and relatively comfortable mode of transportation to reach Kansas?

(see the answer key)

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