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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Professional teachers would sometimes supplement their meager income by ______________________.
(a) Boarding at one of the students' homes.
(b) Writing books.
(c) Tutoring.
(d) Sewing.

2. Which of the following occurred in the Kansas Drought of 1860?
(a) Crippled harvests.
(b) Prairie fires.
(c) Exodus.
(d) Theft.

3. Where was a good place for a man to find a good woman?
(a) Bachelors Balls.
(b) School.
(c) Church.
(d) Ice cream socials.

4. Who cleared paths after major snowstorms?
(a) Community men.
(b) Government workers.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

5. Where did the prairie women mainly do the family laundry?
(a) A stream.
(b) A well.
(c) A pond.
(d) A kettle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Santa enter the homes of prairie families on Christmas Eve?

3. Early Kansas newspapers published which type of the following information?

4. As a result of the new railroad as well as the Homestead Act of 1862, Native Americans were pushed into the state of _____________.

5. Sarah White and _______________ were two young white women captured by Indians.

(see the answer key)

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