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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Corn farmers usually raised a small amount of livestock for food including hogs and ___________.
(a) Cows.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Ducks.
(d) Turkeys.

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

4. Which of the following was a drawback to a dugout dwelling?
(a) Insect.
(b) Blizzards.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Heat.

5. With which of the following crops did Kansas farmers experiment?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Tomatoes.
(d) Soy beans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was especially valued for their ability to keep out the cold?

2. What was the method of transportation chosen by single people or small families to get to Kansas?

3. In the nineteenth century a woman's place was considered to be in ________________.

4. Construction on what railroad began in 1862?

5. Why did prairie women tend to do more typically male jobs than before?

(see the answer key)

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