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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. Colonel Persifier returns to his cotton plantation in which state?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Mississippi.

2. Black men in the army unit are known as __________________.
(a) Buffalo Soldiers.
(b) Nigger Soldiers.
(c) Midnight Soldiers.
(d) Darkies.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Yancey Quimper acquires control of which type of business?

2. Who is Persifier's wife?

3. Where is Santa Anna living in exile?

4. The Rust settlement gives the remaining Comanches permission to hunt ________________.

5. What does the man who works with Otto study?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does the Ku Klux Klan appear in Larkin County and which groups of people are most affected by their presence?

2. Why do Todd and Maggie Morrison move to Texas and how successful are they at adapting?

3. Why do so many people seem to move to Texas between 1928 and 1968? Who are two famous political men who came from Texas?

4. How does Yancey come to own the ten thousand acres owned by the Garza women?

5. How did the U.S. troops finally get the Indians to move to the reservation?

6. Who are the first residents of Fort Sam Garner and why do they want to develop a town?

7. What was the purpose of the Peace Policy instituted by President Polk in 1869?

8. What law enforcement group does Otto join and whom is he supposed to capture?

9. Why does Laurel Cobb have to face trial within the church?

10. Who is Kimbro and what unlikely partnership does he enter into with Floyd Rusk?

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