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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under President ___________________, a new Peace Policy regarding the Indians was implemented in 1869.
(a) Grant.
(b) Harding.
(c) Coolidge.
(d) Lincoln.

2. What does Earnshaw Rust's wife do?
(a) Teaches Indian children how to speak English.
(b) Delivers babies as a midwife.
(c) Works as a rancher.
(d) Tames and sells wild horses.

3. When the Klan whips a man named __________________, he visits Floyd Rusk the next day.
(a) Kimbro.
(b) Kane.
(c) Kongo.
(d) Kunte.

4. Which Indians were responsible for mass burning and killing at San Antonio?
(a) Cherokees.
(b) Lakotas.
(c) Comanches.
(d) Apaches.

5. What do Laurel and his wife open in Waxahachie?
(a) A dairy farm.
(b) A new cotton plantation.
(c) A ranch.
(d) A mercantile.

6. Earnshaw Rusk is a Quaker from which state?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Indiana.

7. Who was one of the Mexican men who illegally crossed the U.S. border in 1961?
(a) Estefan Merengue.
(b) Eloy Muzquiz.
(c) Adolfo Garcia.
(d) Paulo Gonzalez.

8. Why can Benito not inherit the ten thousand acres owned by the Garza women?
(a) He is an enemy of the nation.
(b) He was written out of the will.
(c) He already owns the land.
(d) He is already dead.

9. The capital of Texas moved to _____________ in 1839.
(a) Dallas.
(b) San Antonio.
(c) Austin.
(d) Waco.

10. The man, who was caught in 1961 trying to illegally cross the border, manages to cross the U.S. Border again and lives in which Texas community?
(a) Midland.
(b) Levelland.
(c) El Paso.
(d) Waco.

11. Hector Garza lives in an area where ________________ of the population is Hispanic.
(a) 45.
(b) 25.
(c) 60.
(d) 85.

12. What is Earnshaw Rusk's job?
(a) To educate the Indians.
(b) To annihilate the Indians.
(c) To convert the Indians to Judaism.
(d) To get the Indians to move to reservations.

13. The Mexican army retreats after a few battles at ___________________.
(a) Buena Vista.
(b) San Antonio.
(c) Vera Cruz.
(d) San Diego.

14. Otto learns that Franza's brother has been trying to negotiate peace with the _________________ Indians.
(a) Cherokee.
(b) Apache.
(c) Comanche.
(d) Navajo.

15. Which general is sent to Texas to protect the Texas border?
(a) General Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) General Douglas MacArthur.
(c) General Robert E. Lee.
(d) General Zachary Taylor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Franza's brother, Theo, killed during a visit to see him in Indianola?

2. Soon after Texas becomes a state, the ____________________ occurs from 1846-1848.

3. Laurel Cobb's cotton crop is ruined by __________________.

4. Which family is the first to move into one of the abandoned houses at the fort to make a town?

5. The colonel assigned to Fort Sam Garner and his men rescue _________________ who had been captured by the Indians.

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