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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Earnshaw Rust's wife do?

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

3. Earnshaw Rusk is a Quaker from which state?

4. Why can Benito not inherit the ten thousand acres owned by the Garza women?

5. Whom does Ransom Rusk marry in Larkin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What time period does Chapter VII cover?

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

3. Who are the first residents of Fort Sam Garner and why do they want to develop a town?

4. Why do Todd and Maggie Morrison move to Texas and how successful are they at adapting?

5. How did the U.S. troops finally get the Indians to move to the reservation?

6. How did the Indians feel about President Polk's Peace Policy?

7. How do Earnshaw and Emma go about building a town?

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

9. When does the Ku Klux Klan appear in Larkin County and which groups of people are most affected by their presence?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a brief character study of Lyndon Johnson. What did he look like? What were his positive personality traits? What were some of his negative characteristics? What were his hopes and fears? What motivated him throughout his life?

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of General Santa Anna. What did he look like? What were his positive personality traits? What were some of his negative characteristics? What were his hopes and fears? What motivated him throughout his life?

Essay Topic 3

Name at least three environmental catastrophes that plagued the Texas homesteaders. Then cite the reasons why each catastrophe was so devastating to the settlers. If there were any preventative measures employed by the settlers, state those also in your answer.

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