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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 and Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was especially valued for their ability to keep out the cold?
(a) Mink.
(b) Buffalo skins.
(c) Wolf skins.
(d) Cowhide.

2. Why did prairie women tend to do more typically male jobs than before?
(a) To get the homestead started faster.
(b) Shortage of labor.
(c) Their husbands died early.
(d) They signed a contract.

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) Colorado.
(d) Oklahoma.

4. With what did the settlers beat back fires from their houses?
(a) Wet coats.
(b) Sod.
(c) Water.
(d) Sand.

5. Prairie families tended to be large because of _______________________.
(a) A high rate of child mortality.
(b) No birth control.
(c) The need to gain more land.
(d) Families needing workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following describes how Native Americans were viewed by the settlers?

2. Where was a good place for a man to find a good woman?

3. To which of the following were Kansas settlers subjected?

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

5. Native Americans would often come uninvited into the settlers' homes and marvel at plates and __________________.

(see the answer key)

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