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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With which of the following crops did Kansas farmers experiment?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Soy beans.
(c) Tomatoes.
(d) Wheat.

3. Who was the Cheyenne chief who led his warriors on a killing spree through Kansas?
(a) Chief Lame Deer.
(b) Chief Dull Knife.
(c) Chief Geronimo.
(d) Chief Sitting Bull.

4. Many times the prairie could be a/an ____________ place.
(a) Fascinating.
(b) Forbidding.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Exhilirating.

5. How much land did the government promise each Kansas settler?
(a) 50 acres.
(b) 30 acres.
(c) 160 acres.
(d) 100 acres.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the U.S. economy and population grew, _______________ were increasingly pushed west.

2. What was a major source of crop devastation on the prairie?

3. What kind of plow was used to turn the earth?

4. To what city had the Kansas Pacific Railroad reached by 1870?

5. What was the nickname for sod blocks?

(see the answer key)

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