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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an auto-de-fe?

2. What river do Avara and Frey Damian cross during their inspections?

3. What is a mestizo?

4. Who is appointed as the chairman of the Task Force?

5. D'Zmbreuze is killed while protecting Trinidad from ______________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Which women do Zave Campbell and Finlay McNab marry in Texas?

2. What are the seven cultural inheritances that make up Texas?

3. How does Benito help Otto prior to the prisoner executions at Goliad?

4. What are the underlying reasons for the Texas move toward independence?

5. What happens to Finlay McNab's first family?

6. Benito sides with General Santa Anna and rides to the Alamo. What happens to start the siege there?

7. What good fortune does Garcilaco have after the death of Frey Marcos

8. Explain the irony of Ramon's actions to keep Trinidad from Domingo Garza.

9. What does Jubal Qimper establish at the Brazos River?

10. Why does following your own conscience regarding a rebellion create such conflict among friends and family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how a Texas frontier town was established. Where was it most likely to be located? What were the typical establishments in a frontier town? Why were frontier towns so volatile?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the influx of immigrants to the Texas frontier. For what reasons did they leave their homes? What special challenges did they experience in homesteading in Texas that Americans did not experience? How readily accepted were the immigrants by the established settlers in Texas?

Essay Topic 3

The author uses more than one iteration on the theme of struggle. Identify at least two instances about struggle in the book and then cite examples to support your answers.

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