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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. Comanche Chief _____________ holds a war council and decides to attack the settlement in #124.

2. Peavine is chased out of the county because he is a troublemaker, but he returns and kills a _______________ named Parmenteer.

3. When the Klan whips a man named __________________, he visits Floyd Rusk the next day.

4. Somersett Cobb is running against Yancey Quimper for which political office?

5. Earnshaw Rusk is named as United States Indian Agent at _______________________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What year is it in Chapter XII and what is the composition of Texas rural areas to city areas?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What time period does Chapter VII cover?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Explain the drive it took to be a Texas homesteader. What did it require? Who were the best candidates for homesteading?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the significance of the book's title. What does the author mean by calling it simply TEXAS? What was he trying to emphasize with this emphatic style? Suggest three alternate titles for this book with supporting rationale for each one.

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