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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 and Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Early Kansas newspapers published which type of the following information?
(a) Vacant land for sale.
(b) News from New York.
(c) Native Americans moving into the area.
(d) Recipes.

2. How many people comprised an average School Board?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

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

4. If a frontier town didn't have a jail, a prisoner might be locked up in __________________.
(a) A church.
(b) A stable.
(c) A stagecoach.
(d) An underground bunker.

5. Construction on what railroad began in 1862?
(a) Union Pacific Railroad.
(b) Kansas Pacific Railroad.
(c) Norfolk Southern Railroad.
(d) B&O Railroad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following describes how Native Americans were viewed by the settlers?

2. In 1874, the meat of livestock tasted like ____________ because of consuming so many of them.

3. Which of the following diseases was common among the Kansas settlers?

4. When a General Store grew, it divided into separate departments that could include ______________.

5. How did Santa enter the homes of prairie families on Christmas Eve?

(see the answer key)

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