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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which states does President Polk want to buy from Mexico to add them to the union?
(a) Arizona and New Mexico.
(b) California and New Mexico.
(c) California and Arizona.
(d) California and Colorado.

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

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

4. Which Indians were responsible for mass burning and killing at San Antonio?
(a) Lakotas.
(b) Cherokees.
(c) Apaches.
(d) Comanches.

5. Which family is the first to move into one of the abandoned houses at the fort to make a town?
(a) The Ernst Klopfer family.
(b) The James Kerrigan family.
(c) The Otto McNab family.
(d) The Frank Yeager family.

6. Somersett Cobb is running against Yancey Quimper for which political office?
(a) U.S. Senator.
(b) Governor.
(c) Judge.
(d) Mayor.

7. Yancey gives himself the military title of __________________.
(a) General.
(b) Sergeant.
(c) Captain.
(d) Lieutenant.

8. Texans Cactus John Garner and ____________________ both become Speakers of the House.
(a) Lyndon Johnson.
(b) Harley Hatton.
(c) Sam Rayburn.
(d) George Bush.

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

10. Who is Persifier's wife?
(a) Elizabeth Ann.
(b) Tessa Mae.
(c) Elaine.
(d) Margaret Sue.

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

12. Who was the U.S. Border Patrol agent who caught the man illegally crossing the border in 1961?
(a) Jack Murray.
(b) Chris Miller.
(c) Ben Talbot.
(d) Bill Weston.

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

14. 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) Waco.
(b) El Paso.
(c) Midland.
(d) Levelland.

15. Whom does Earnshaw Rust marry?
(a) Elizabeth Morton.
(b) Emma Seames.
(c) Suzanne Malvern.
(d) Emma Larkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter XII, what is the largest city in Texas?

2. What is the nickname for Maria de la Luz?

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

4. Black men in the army unit are known as __________________.

5. Whom does the first president of Texas marry?

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