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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gives the Rusks money to pay the bank when they can't make a mortgage payment?
(a) MacMurray.
(b) Dodge.
(c) Poteet.
(d) Johnson.

2. What happens to the Germans at Fredericksbug who can't support the Civil War?
(a) They are hanged.
(b) Nothing happens to them.
(c) They are imprisoned.
(d) They are exiled.

3. Black men in the army unit are known as __________________.
(a) Nigger Soldiers.
(b) Darkies.
(c) Buffalo Soldiers.
(d) Midnight Soldiers.

4. How many children does the man in #159 have?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

5. Who becomes the first president of Texas?
(a) William Austin.
(b) John Gerard Dallas.
(c) Sam Houston.
(d) Lyndon Johnson.

6. Whom does the first president of Texas marry?
(a) Maria Bello.
(b) Magda Bowen.
(c) Sally Beale.
(d) Betsy Belle.

7. Captain George Reed is sent to erect a fort which is then named _______________________.
(a) Fort George Reed.
(b) Fort Reeves.
(c) Fort Sam Garner.
(d) Fort Grant.

8. Comanche Chief _____________ holds a war council and decides to attack the settlement in #124.
(a) Tecumseh.
(b) Red Cloud.
(c) Matark.
(d) Geronimo.

9. The slave named _________________ sells cotton in Mexico and receives a letter of credit with which he buys land.
(a) Joe.
(b) Trajan.
(c) Finny.
(d) Eban.

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

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

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

13. A black man and Floyd Rusk go into the _____________ business together.
(a) Cotton.
(b) Oil.
(c) Railroad.
(d) Cattle.

14. 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) Vera Cruz.
(c) San Diego.
(d) Waco.

15. Why does Yancey Quimper withdraw from the political race?
(a) Earnshaw Rusk exposes his fraud.
(b) He has family obligations to tend to.
(c) He is injured and cannot serve.
(d) He buys a new ranch instead.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Rust settlement gives the remaining Comanches permission to hunt ________________.

2. Colonel Persifier ______________ decides to leave the army after the Mexican War.

3. Otto learns that Franza's brother has been trying to negotiate peace with the _________________ Indians.

4. Which Presidential administration meets with the exiled Santa Anna?

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

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