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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Prairie life made the woman ____________ her husband.
(a) Subservient to.
(b) In awe of.
(c) Complain about.
(d) Equal to.
2. Who was the Cheyenne chief who led his warriors on a killing spree through Kansas?
(a) Chief Sitting Bull.
(b) Chief Dull Knife.
(c) Chief Lame Deer.
(d) Chief Geronimo.
3. What was the weight of the average sod house?
(a) 5 tons.
(b) 90 tons.
(c) 2 tons.
(d) 10 tons.
4. Hundreds of ______________ Indians were slaughtered by the U.S. government in 1864.
(a) Sioux.
(b) Cheyenne.
(c) Lakota.
(d) Wyandot.
5. What was the nickname for sod blocks?
(a) Prairie marble.
(b) Grass bricks.
(c) Grass stacks.
(d) Prairie manna.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following did boy children do to help their fathers?
2. At what distance were horses changed on a stagecoach route?
3. What was a major occasion for social gatherings among prairie families?
4. Native Americans did not regard land as _______________________.
5. Which of the following male tasks did prairie women take on?
Short Essay Questions
1. Name the benefits and drawbacks of homesteading in eastern Kansas and western Kansas.
2. Describe how a winter storm was so incapacitating to prairie families.
3. Explain the use of cow and buffalo dung on the prairie.
4. What type of clothing did the pioneering families wear and how did the women keep them clean?
5. Describe the devastation of "The Grasshopper Year" in 1874.
6. In addition to fires, what other natural disasters did the homesteaders need to fend off?
7. Describe a typical Christmas for a pioneer family.
8. When did the railroad become a viable method of transportation west?
9. How did prairie life put women on equal footing with their husbands in the family dynamic?
10. What did pioneer children do to amuse themselves?
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