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

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 B

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 4 and Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many settlers found strength in ____________ when hardships came their way.
(a) God.
(b) The government.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Each other.

2. Many times the prairie could be a/an ____________ place.
(a) Lonely.
(b) Exhilirating.
(c) Forbidding.
(d) Fascinating.

3. To what city had the Kansas Pacific Railroad reached by 1870?
(a) Denver.
(b) Provo.
(c) Bozeman.
(d) Sacramento.

4. What disease was particularly devastating for young children on the prairie?
(a) Chicken pox.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Measles.
(d) Malaria.

5. What lured people from the east to head to Kansas to settle?
(a) Cheap land.
(b) Fertile soil.
(c) Low taxes.
(d) Abundant water.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much land did the government promise each Kansas settler?

2. Who cleared paths after major snowstorms?

3. Which of the following could cripple the settlers during the winter?

4. What was the method of transportation chosen by single people or small families to get to Kansas?

5. Prairie life made the woman ____________ her husband.

(see the answer key)

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