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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the army troops force the Indians to surrender and move to the reservations?
(a) They kill off their animals.
(b) They force them at gunpoint.
(c) They burn their encampments.
(d) They begin to poison them.

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

3. Who is Persifier's brother?
(a) Dane.
(b) Somerset.
(c) Edward.
(d) Clayton.

4. The Larkins are _________________ who move onto Comanche land.
(a) Methodists.
(b) Jews.
(c) Catholics.
(d) Baptists.

5. Which of the following is NOT in the same unit serving under General Lee?
(a) Sett.
(b) Otto.
(c) Persifier.
(d) Reuben.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Santa Anna do with the money given to him by the U.S. government?
(a) Builds fortresses along the Rio Grande.
(b) Develops an army.
(c) Buys jewels and art.
(d) Retires to Rio de Janeiro.

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

12. Who is one of the Ku Klux Klan leaders in Larkin County?
(a) Floyd Rusk.
(b) Otto McNab.
(c) Laurel Cobb.
(d) Hector Garza.

13. Where does R.J. Poteet take horses and cattle for shipment to the East?
(a) Waco.
(b) San Antonio.
(c) Dodge City.
(d) Kansas City.

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

15. How is Franza's brother, Theo, killed during a visit to see him in Indianola?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Cholera.
(c) An Apache raid.
(d) A hurricane strike.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who gives the Rusks money to pay the bank when they can't make a mortgage payment?

3. Which Indians were responsible for mass burning and killing at San Antonio?

4. What does Earnshaw Rust's wife do?

5. Todd Morrison becomes a multimillionaire in which industry?

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