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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many cultural inheritance groups are there in Texas?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

2. Who kills Ramon?
(a) Domingo Garza.
(b) Trinidad.
(c) Sararo Veramidi.
(d) Mordacai Marr.

3. What is an auto-de-fe?
(a) A steamship.
(b) A crop rotation method.
(c) A harvest festival.
(d) A public penance ritual.

4. What does the Texas governor want by the Sesquicentennial?
(a) A parade.
(b) A folk festival.
(c) A statue.
(d) A report.

5. Which of the following do the Quimpers NOT experience as they travel across Texas?
(a) Rye.
(b) Locusts.
(c) Oats.
(d) Honey..

Short Answer Questions

1. The Quimper family comes from which state?

2. What do Garcilaco and his wife find of Marcos' after Marcos dies?

3. What is a Sesquicentennial?

4. Who is the first son born to Alvara and Benita?

5. How many people are in the Quimper family heading for Texas in Chapter IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the underlying reasons for the Texas move toward independence?

2. Where does the Qimper family come from and where do they settle in Texas?

3. Why has the Governor of Texas put together a Task Force?

4. What were the beginnings of San Antonio as described by the author in Chapter II?

5. Who is Garcilaco and what is his role in Chapter I?

6. Why did the Methodist Qimpers experience religious conflict when settling in Texas?

7. What good fortune does Garcilaco have after the death of Frey Marcos

8. Who were the members of the governor's Task Force and why were they chosen?

9. How does Benito help Otto prior to the prisoner executions at Goliad?

10. What happens to Finlay McNab's first family?

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