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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. Which of the following did boy children do to help their fathers?
(a) Hunt.
(b) Make guns.
(c) Visit the banker.
(d) Write letters.

2. What is one of the reasons that homesteaders did not like cowboys coming through their territory?
(a) The cows stomped crops.
(b) They were dirty and refused to bathe.
(c) They flirted with the girls in town.
(d) They got drunk in town.

3. 1874 was named ___________________ due to crop devastation.
(a) The Silent Wheat.
(b) The Grasshopper Year.
(c) The Dead Corn.
(d) The Boll Weevil Year.

4. Why were times of illness, pregnancy and childbirth especially frightful times for prairie women?
(a) The doctors would not make house calls.
(b) There were no midwives.
(c) They were a long way from any medical help.
(d) They were a long way from their families.

5. Which of the following did the cowboys do in town once the cattle drive was over?
(a) Went to church.
(b) Got cleaned up at the Barber Shop.
(c) Settled in town.
(d) Wrote letters home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following would occur on the Fourth of July?

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

3. The howl of coyotes and _________ would frighten settlers especially at night.

4. Prairie families tended to be large because of _______________________.

5. People of which nationality immigrated to settle in Kansas?

(see the answer key)

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