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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX, Loyalties.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sam Houston resign as governor of Texas?
(a) His health is failing.
(b) He wants to run for U.S. President.
(c) He is retirement age.
(d) He refuses to accept the Confederacy.

2. Santa Anna promises to end the war if the U.S. government would give him one half million dollars in gold and transport him to _________________.
(a) San Antonio.
(b) Waco.
(c) Vera Cruz.
(d) San Diego.

3. Whom does Trinidad eventually marry?
(a) Rene-Claude d'Ambreuze.
(b) Mordacai Marr.
(c) Domingo Garza.
(d) Lararo Veramidi.

4. What is the nickname for Maria de la Luz?
(a) Lupe Luz.
(b) Mattie Luz.
(c) Lucha Lopez.
(d) Mar de la Lopez.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Santa Anna do with the money given to him by the U.S. government?

3. Who is appointed as the chairman of the Task Force?

4. What does the Texas governor want by the Sesquicentennial?

5. The Mexican army retreats after a few battles at ___________________.

(see the answer key)

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