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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the most crucial component for a homestead?
(a) Water.
(b) Sod.
(c) Trees.
(d) Rich soil.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the method used to find water in underground springs?

2. Which of the following skills did most prairie women possess?

3. What was the mode of transportation chosen by families to reach Kansas?

4. Why did streams run brown in Kansas in 1874?

5. In what year was the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed?

(see the answer key)

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