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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What act was passed which opened up Kansas to settlement?
(a) Kansas Land Act.
(b) Kansas Title Act.
(c) Kansas-Nebraska Act.
(d) Kansas Settlement Act.

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

4. What lured people from the east to head to Kansas to settle?
(a) Abundant water.
(b) Low taxes.
(c) Cheap land.
(d) Fertile soil.

5. Which of the following diseases was common among the Kansas settlers?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Measles.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Tuberculosis

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the nickname for sod blocks?

2. Construction on what railroad began in 1862?

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

4. At what distance were horses changed on a stagecoach route?

5. Prairie life made the woman ____________ her husband.

(see the answer key)

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