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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the most valued source of fuel on the prairie?
(a) Cow dung.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Gasoline.
(d) Oil.

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

3. What was known to batter crops during the summer months?
(a) Locusts.
(b) Bats.
(c) Hurricanes.
(d) Hailstones.

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

5. Which of the following was true for most frontier hotels?
(a) Fireplace in every room.
(b) Room service available.
(c) They were brothels.
(d) Small guest rooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon was Carry Nation notorious for using?

2. Which of the following would often result in birth defects or physical handicaps of a newborn baby?

3. Which of the following male tasks did prairie women take on?

4. In what year were Native American tribes first forcibly forced to move west of the Mississippi River?

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

(see the answer key)

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