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

2. How did the frontier circuit preacher supplement his meager income?
(a) Relied on housing and food from his congregation.
(b) Did carpentry work.
(c) Shoed horses.
(d) Tutored students.

3. Which of the following served as furnishings in early frontier churches?
(a) Fireplaces.
(b) Backless benches.
(c) Windsor chairs.
(d) Brocade drapes.

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

5. Why were men not attracted to frontier teaching positions?
(a) They didn't think it was manly work.
(b) Insufficient salary.
(c) They didn't have the education.
(d) They preferred to farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which of the following did teachers teach in frontier schools?

2. With which of the following crops did Kansas farmers experiment?

3. What disease was particularly devastating for young children on the prairie?

4. If a town did not have a schoolhouse, where would the teacher hold class?

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

(see the answer key)

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