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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Occasional skirmishes perpetuated the myth of the Native Americans as ________________.
(a) Expert sharpshooters.
(b) Crafty trackers.
(c) Skilled weapons makers.
(d) Savages.

2. In the nineteenth century a woman's place was considered to be in ________________.
(a) The garden.
(b) The home.
(c) The laundry room.
(d) The kitchen.

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

4. In 1874, the meat of livestock tasted like ____________ because of consuming so many of them.
(a) Wasps.
(b) Earthworms.
(c) Flies.
(d) Grasshoppers.

5. Through which of the following did grasshoppers eat?
(a) Cows.
(b) Horses.
(c) Dust.
(d) Crops.

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

7. Which of the following adorned the Christmas trees of prairie families?
(a) Popcorn.
(b) Tinsel.
(c) Lights.
(d) Candy canes.

8. Some prairie women were called upon to perform minor surgery and to ______________.
(a) Dispense pills.
(b) Give inoculations.
(c) Dress the dead for burial.
(d) Stitch cuts.

9. What type of animals usually worked the plow?
(a) Oxen.
(b) Cows.
(c) Horses.
(d) Mules.

10. What would announce that the Fourth of July had arrived?
(a) Bugle blast.
(b) Cannon blast.
(c) Church bells.
(d) Rifle shots.

11. Which Kansas county was especially ravaged by the Cheyenne and Sioux tribes in 1868?
(a) Mitchell.
(b) McKenna.
(c) Madison.
(d) Mortimer.

12. To what city had the Kansas Pacific Railroad reached by 1870?
(a) Denver.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Provo.
(d) Bozeman.

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

14. Which of the following was true about Anna Brewster Morgan?
(a) She founded the University of Kansas.
(b) She was the best shot in the West.
(c) She organized a prairie women's group.
(d) She was captured by Indians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the weight of the average sod house?

2. The prairie was usually devoid of trees and ______________.

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

4. Construction on what railroad began in 1862?

5. Where did frontier families take shelter during Indian raids?

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