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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. 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.

2. How do the army troops force the Indians to surrender and move to the reservations?
(a) They burn their encampments.
(b) They begin to poison them.
(c) They force them at gunpoint.
(d) They kill off their animals.

3. What do Laurel and his wife open in Waxahachie?
(a) A mercantile.
(b) A new cotton plantation.
(c) A dairy farm.
(d) A ranch.

4. Who is one of the Ku Klux Klan leaders in Larkin County?
(a) Otto McNab.
(b) Laurel Cobb.
(c) Floyd Rusk.
(d) Hector Garza.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does the man in #159 have?

2. In Chapter XII, what is the largest city in Texas?

3. Soon after Texas becomes a state, the ____________________ occurs from 1846-1848.

4. Who becomes the first president of Texas?

5. Whom does Ransom Rusk marry in Larkin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What time period does Chapter VII cover?

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

6. What role does slavery play in Texas prior to the Civil War?

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

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

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

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

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