View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Earnshaw Rusk's job?
(a) To convert the Indians to Judaism.
(b) To annihilate the Indians.
(c) To get the Indians to move to reservations.
(d) To educate the Indians.

3. Who kills Benito Garza during a raid on his ranch in Mexico?
(a) Sett.
(b) Otto.
(c) Reuben.
(d) Caleb.

4. Where do Sett and Lissa purchase land in Texas?
(a) Waco.
(b) Jefferson.
(c) Austin.
(d) Irving.

5. Colonel ___________________ is assigned to Fort Sam Garner and leads several raids against the Comanche Indians.
(a) Alexander Coffey.
(b) Nathan Bedford.
(c) Edward Truelove.
(d) Lewis Renfro.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Santa Anna living in exile?

3. What does Earnshaw Rust's wife do?

4. Who is Emma's son?

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Benito Garza's opinion of the Mexican War and why would he feel this way?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 810 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample