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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Emma's son?
(a) James.
(b) Floyd.
(c) Cornelius.
(d) Charles.

2. The Rust settlement gives the remaining Comanches permission to hunt ________________.
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Deer.
(d) Elk.

3. Which general is sent to Texas to protect the Texas border?
(a) General Robert E. Lee.
(b) General Douglas MacArthur.
(c) General Zachary Taylor.
(d) General Ulysses S. Grant.

4. Who is the man who would take pregnant women across the border into the U.S. so their child would be born an American citizen?
(a) El Godo.
(b) El Santo.
(c) El Lobo.
(d) El Loco.

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

6. The Ku Klux Klan appears in Larken County in December of what year?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1878.

7. Laurel Cobb's cotton crop is ruined by __________________.
(a) Tornado.
(b) Fire.
(c) Drought.
(d) Boll weevils.

8. What do Laurel and his wife open in Waxahachie?
(a) A ranch.
(b) A mercantile.
(c) A dairy farm.
(d) A new cotton plantation.

9. 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) El Paso.
(c) Midland.
(d) Waco.

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

11. Otto joins a police-like unit called a/an ________________________.
(a) Ranging company.
(b) Legal company.
(c) Tracker company.
(d) Equine company.

12. 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 buys a new ranch instead.
(d) He is injured and cannot serve.

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

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

15. Who was one of the Mexican men who illegally crossed the U.S. border in 1961?
(a) Adolfo Garcia.
(b) Estefan Merengue.
(c) Eloy Muzquiz.
(d) Paulo Gonzalez.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the Allerkamp daughters does Otto McNab marry?

2. Earnshaw Rusk is a Quaker from which state?

3. Why can Benito not inherit the ten thousand acres owned by the Garza women?

4. Ransom Rusk's lawn is torn up by which animals?

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

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