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

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

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

4. Otto learns that Franza's brother has been trying to negotiate peace with the _________________ Indians.
(a) Navajo.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) Apache.
(d) Comanche.

5. What does Earnshaw Rust's wife do?
(a) Teaches Indian children how to speak English.
(b) Delivers babies as a midwife.
(c) Tames and sells wild horses.
(d) Works as a rancher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yancey leads a movement to make ________________ a slave state.

2. Laurel Cobb's cotton crop is ruined by __________________.

3. What is Earnshaw Rusk's job?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What years did the Mexican War take place and why is there such lingering hatred between the Texans and Mexicans at this time?

2. How do Agent Talbot's feelings about Muzquiz' immigration different from how he feels about El Lobo?

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

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

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

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

7. What time period does Chapter VII cover?

8. What would account for the brutality of the Texans during the Mexican War?

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

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

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