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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. Earnshaw dies from complications following ____________________.
(a) Being stomped by a horse.
(b) A near drowning.
(c) A knife wound.
(d) A car accident.

2. Yancey leads a movement to make ________________ a slave state.
(a) Texas.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Montana.

3. Which family is the first to move into one of the abandoned houses at the fort to make a town?
(a) The Otto McNab family.
(b) The Ernst Klopfer family.
(c) The James Kerrigan family.
(d) The Frank Yeager family.

4. Colonel Persifier returns to his cotton plantation in which state?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Georgia.

5. Colonel ___________________ is assigned to Fort Sam Garner and leads several raids against the Comanche Indians.
(a) Nathan Bedford.
(b) Lewis Renfro.
(c) Edward Truelove.
(d) Alexander Coffey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Sett and Lissa purchase land in Texas?

2. Which of the following groups is NOT welcome in Larkin County after the arrival of the Ku Klux Klan?

3. Which Indians were responsible for mass burning and killing at San Antonio?

4. Ransom Rusk's lawn is torn up by which animals?

5. Peavine is chased out of the county because he is a troublemaker, but he returns and kills a _______________ named Parmenteer.

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does slavery play in Texas prior to the Civil War?

2. What time period does Chapter VII cover?

3. Why do the Cobb women not tell their slaves about the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?

4. Who is Kimbro and what unlikely partnership does he enter into with Floyd Rusk?

5. Explain the situation of illegal alien Eloy Muzquiz and his attempts to immigrate to Texas.

6. Why does the Republic of Texas come to an end and on what date does that occur?

7. What was the purpose of the Peace Policy instituted by President Polk in 1869?

8. What law enforcement group does Otto join and whom is he supposed to capture?

9. What responsibilities does Earnshaw assume for the town and what is it eventually named?

10. Why do so many people seem to move to Texas between 1928 and 1968? Who are two famous political men who came from Texas?

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