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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Occasional skirmishes perpetuated the myth of the Native Americans as ________________.
(a) Expert sharpshooters.
(b) Savages.
(c) Crafty trackers.
(d) Skilled weapons makers.

2. Which of the following did the settlers look for in determining where to make their homes?
(a) Fertile soil
(b) Good neighbors.
(c) Meadows.
(d) No neighbors.

3. What was the most-celebrated holiday among prairie families?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) Fourth of July.
(d) New Year's.

4. The howl of coyotes and _________ would frighten settlers especially at night.
(a) Bears.
(b) Wolves.
(c) Indians.
(d) Prairie dogs.

5. Which of the following would often result in birth defects or physical handicaps of a newborn baby?
(a) Bad genes.
(b) Injuries.
(c) Poor diet
(d) No pre-natal care.

6. What was the most valued source of fuel on the prairie?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Cow dung.
(c) Gasoline.
(d) Oil.

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

8. Which of the following was true about Anna Brewster Morgan?
(a) She founded the University of Kansas.
(b) She was captured by Indians.
(c) She organized a prairie women's group.
(d) She was the best shot in the West.

9. What was a staple in the Kansas farm family diet?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Corn.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Soybeans.

10. Native Americans did not regard land as _______________________.
(a) Eternal.
(b) Property to be parceled and sold.
(c) Sacred.
(d) Their own.

11. Hundreds of ______________ Indians were slaughtered by the U.S. government in 1864.
(a) Cheyenne.
(b) Lakota.
(c) Wyandot.
(d) Sioux.

12. Through which of the following did grasshoppers eat?
(a) Horses.
(b) Cows.
(c) Dust.
(d) Crops.

13. In what year was the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1854.

14. Sarah White and _______________ were two young white women captured by Indians.
(a) Lucille Bronson.
(b) Mary McKenna.
(c) Sally Ann Madison.
(d) Anna Brewster Morgan.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The disappearance of _______________ made the Native American visits less friendly.

5. In the nineteenth century a woman's place was considered to be in ________________.

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