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

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

3. How old is Otto in Chapter VII?
(a) 14.
(b) 12.
(c) 25.
(d) 28.

4. How many slaves do Persifier and Tessa Mae give to Sett and Lissa when they leave for Texas?
(a) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 18.

5. With whom does Otto decide to work together?
(a) Martin Ascot.
(b) Michael Arbor.
(c) Marvin Ables.
(d) Marcus Astin.

Short Answer Questions

1. The colonel assigned to Fort Sam Garner and his men rescue _________________ who had been captured by the Indians.

2. Who was one of the Mexican men who illegally crossed the U.S. border in 1961?

3. Who becomes the first president of Texas?

4. Which general is sent to Texas to protect the Texas border?

5. Whom does the first president of Texas marry?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the Indians feel about President Polk's Peace Policy?

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

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

5. Why do the Cobb women not tell their slaves about the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?

6. Why does the Republic of Texas come to an end and on what date does that occur?

7. Who is named the first U.S. Indian Agent?

8. What responsibilities does Earnshaw assume for the town and what is it eventually named?

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

10. Why do new Texas residents like Persifier and Somerset Cobb decide to side with the South in the Civil War?

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