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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease was particularly devastating for young children on the prairie?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Chicken pox.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Measles.

2. Why were times of illness, pregnancy and childbirth especially frightful times for prairie women?
(a) They were a long way from any medical help.
(b) The doctors would not make house calls.
(c) There were no midwives.
(d) They were a long way from their families.

3. As a result of the new railroad as well as the Homestead Act of 1862, Native Americans were pushed into the state of _____________.
(a) Arizona.
(b) Montana.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) Colorado.

4. Why did streams run brown in Kansas in 1874?
(a) Indian wars.
(b) Mud slides.
(c) Grasshopper excrement.
(d) Drought.

5. Hundreds of ______________ Indians were slaughtered by the U.S. government in 1864.
(a) Cheyenne.
(b) Wyandot.
(c) Sioux.
(d) Lakota.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became the staple crops for the Kansas farmer?

2. What type of animals usually worked the plow?

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

4. Through which of the following did grasshoppers eat?

5. What was a constant worry on the prairie?

(see the answer key)

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