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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. The Mexican army retreats after a few battles at ___________________.
(a) Buena Vista.
(b) San Diego.
(c) San Antonio.
(d) Vera Cruz.

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

3. Why does Beth Morrison have problems in school in Texas?
(a) She didn't have some of the basic subjects.
(b) She started in the middle of the year.
(c) She has a really strong accent.
(d) She is constantly reminded that she is not a native Texan.

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

5. What does the man who works with Otto study?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following groups is NOT welcome in Larkin County after the arrival of the Ku Klux Klan?

2. Hector Garza lives in an area where ________________ of the population is Hispanic.

3. How do the army troops force the Indians to surrender and move to the reservations?

4. Who was the U.S. Border Patrol agent who caught the man illegally crossing the border in 1961?

5. Yancey gives himself the military title of __________________.

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

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

4. What time period does Chapter VII cover?

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

6. Why does the speaker at the Task Force meeting think that Texas was greatly influenced by the South?

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

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

9. Explain the situation of illegal alien Eloy Muzquiz and his attempts to immigrate to Texas.

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

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