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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 ______________ decides to leave the army after the Mexican War.
(a) Caleb.
(b) Clayton.
(c) Cobb.
(d) Cowan.

2. The Rust settlement gives the remaining Comanches permission to hunt ________________.
(a) Eagles.
(b) Deer.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Elk.

3. What year is it in Chapter XII?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1865.

4. Whom does Ransom Rusk marry in Larkin?
(a) Angelina.
(b) Fleurette.
(c) Celeste.
(d) Gabriella.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Franza's brother, Theo, killed during a visit to see him in Indianola?

2. Earnshaw dies from complications following ____________________.

3. Who is Emma's son?

4. The man, who was caught in 1961 trying to illegally cross the border, manages to cross the U.S. Border again and lives in which Texas community?

5. Why can Benito not inherit the ten thousand acres owned by the Garza women?

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

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

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

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

6. Who is R.J. Poteet and what role does he play in the new town?

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

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

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

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

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