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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shone through the ruined landscape of the Texas Hill Country?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Limestone.
(c) Gold.
(d) Granite.

2. What was a key to surviving in the Texas Hill Country?
(a) Learning how to rotate crops.
(b) Building sod houses.
(c) Understanding the Comanche people.
(d) Installing irrigation.

3. What was the name of the political group that emerged in the Texas Hill Country?
(a) The Socialist Texas Society.
(b) The Alamo Society.
(c) The People's Party.
(d) The Texas Republicans.

4. According to the author, ambition and big ideas can lead to ________________.
(a) greed.
(b) success.
(c) fame.
(d) ruin.

5. From what state did Lyndon come?
(a) Arizona.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Montana.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color eyes did the Buntons have?

2. How many of Sam and Eliza's children were boys?

3. Why had neither the Spanish nor the Mexicans tried to tame the Texas Hill Country?

4. What were the hills made of in the area in #10?

5. The Johnsons were as ambitious as the Buntons but lacked ________________.

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