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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. Earnshaw Rusk is a Quaker from which state?

2. The colonel assigned to Fort Sam Garner and his men rescue _________________ who had been captured by the Indians.

3. What year is it in Chapter XII?

4. Whom does Earnshaw Rust marry?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When does the Ku Klux Klan appear in Larkin County and which groups of people are most affected by their presence?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the value that Michener's book has for preserving the heritage and culture of Texas. What value does it have for historians and students today? What value will you take away from this literary experience? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

What positions, other than wife and mother, did most Texas prairie women hold? What was expected of a prairie woman by others? What expectations did she place on herself? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the role of religion--especially Catholicism--on the Texas prairie. Was there an increase in religious life because just living on the prairie was such a trying experience? What were the primary religions represented on the Texas frontier?

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