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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 and Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Prairie life made the woman ____________ her husband.
(a) Equal to.
(b) Complain about.
(c) In awe of.
(d) Subservient to.

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

4. Some prairie women were called upon to perform minor surgery and to ______________.
(a) Dispense pills.
(b) Dress the dead for burial.
(c) Give inoculations.
(d) Stitch cuts.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Corn farmers usually raised a small amount of livestock for food including hogs and ___________.

3. Many settlers found strength in ____________ when hardships came their way.

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

5. In prairie schools at a teacher's home the same material would be taught to children of all ages and there were no _____________.

(see the answer key)

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