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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. Benito Garza becomes a ___________________.
(a) Minister.
(b) Bandit.
(c) Politician.
(d) Teacher.

2. Laurel Cobb's cotton crop is ruined by __________________.
(a) Drought.
(b) Tornado.
(c) Fire.
(d) Boll weevils.

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

4. Who is the man who would take pregnant women across the border into the U.S. so their child would be born an American citizen?
(a) El Loco.
(b) El Santo.
(c) El Godo.
(d) El Lobo.

5. Why can Benito not inherit the ten thousand acres owned by the Garza women?
(a) He is already dead.
(b) He already owns the land.
(c) He was written out of the will.
(d) He is an enemy of the nation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Yancey Quimper withdraw from the political race?

2. Which Texan becomes both Vice President and President of the United States?

3. Where do Sett and Lissa purchase land in Texas?

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

5. Which Presidential administration meets with the exiled Santa Anna?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What time period does Chapter VII cover?

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

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

7. How does General Santa Anna deceive the U.S. government through a deal with the Polk administration?

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

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

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

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