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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following groups is NOT welcome in Larkin County after the arrival of the Ku Klux Klan?
(a) Jews.
(b) Asians.
(c) Catholics.
(d) Blacks.

2. Who is Laurel Cobb's wife?
(a) Sue Beth.
(b) Jo Ellen.
(c) Maggie Su.
(d) Lizzella.

3. What does Earnshaw Rust's wife do?
(a) Tames and sells wild horses.
(b) Works as a rancher.
(c) Teaches Indian children how to speak English.
(d) Delivers babies as a midwife.

4. Where do Sett and Lissa purchase land in Texas?
(a) Jefferson.
(b) Austin.
(c) Waco.
(d) Irving.

5. Which Texan becomes both Vice President and President of the United States?
(a) Lyndon Johnson.
(b) George McGovern.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Hubert Humphrey.

6. 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.

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

8. Why does Laurel face trial within his church?
(a) He does not make his children attend church services.
(b) He has taken money from the church coffers.
(c) He is accused of encouraging women to dance.
(d) He has been seen with another man's wife.

9. The Mexican army retreats after a few battles at ___________________.
(a) Buena Vista.
(b) San Antonio.
(c) Vera Cruz.
(d) San Diego.

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

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

12. What is the name of the town that Earnshaw and Emma establish?
(a) Lucky.
(b) Ludlow.
(c) Learned.
(d) Larkin.

13. The man, who was caught in 1961 trying to illegally cross the border, manages to cross the U.S. Border again and lives in which Texas community?
(a) Levelland.
(b) Waco.
(c) Midland.
(d) El Paso.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Todd Morrison becomes a multimillionaire in which industry?

2. Somersett Cobb is running against Yancey Quimper for which political office?

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

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

5. Who was one of the Mexican men who illegally crossed the U.S. border in 1961?

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