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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the most crucial component for a homestead?
(a) Water.
(b) Trees.
(c) Rich soil.
(d) Sod.

3. What is the method used to find water in underground springs?
(a) Water witching.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Indian signs.
(d) Plot maps.

4. To what city had the Kansas Pacific Railroad reached by 1870?
(a) Provo.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Bozeman.
(d) Denver.

5. Why did prairie women tend to do more typically male jobs than before?
(a) Shortage of labor.
(b) They signed a contract.
(c) Their husbands died early.
(d) To get the homestead started faster.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lured people from the east to head to Kansas to settle?

2. What was a popular and relatively comfortable mode of transportation to reach Kansas?

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

4. What act was passed which opened up Kansas to settlement?

5. Which of the following was a drawback to a dugout dwelling?

(see the answer key)

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