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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of animals usually worked the plow?
(a) Mules.
(b) Horses.
(c) Oxen.
(d) Cows.

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

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

4. Which of the following male tasks did prairie women take on?
(a) Business meetings.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Buying seed.
(d) Planting.

5. What was the nickname for sod blocks?
(a) Prairie manna.
(b) Grass stacks.
(c) Grass bricks.
(d) Prairie marble.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the method of transportation chosen by single people or small families to get to Kansas?

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

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

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

5. What was the most crucial component for a homestead?

(see the answer key)

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