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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 method of transportation chosen by single people or small families to get to Kansas?
(a) Boat.
(b) Covered wagon.
(c) Stagecoach.
(d) Train.

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

3. The prairie was usually devoid of trees and ______________.
(a) Tumbleweed.
(b) Large rocks.
(c) Bushes.
(d) Grass.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following skills did most prairie women possess?

3. What type of animals usually worked the plow?

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

5. Which of the following diseases was common among the Kansas settlers?

(see the answer key)

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