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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. Otto joins a police-like unit called a/an ________________________.

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

3. Hector Garza lives in an area where ________________ of the population is Hispanic.

4. Who kills Benito Garza during a raid on his ranch in Mexico?

5. Earnshaw dies from complications following ____________________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Laurel Cobb have to face trial within the church?

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

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

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

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

9. What would account for the brutality of the Texans during the Mexican War?

10. Why do new Texas residents like Persifier and Somerset Cobb decide to side with the South in the Civil War?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why were social visits so welcome among the Texas homesteaders? What was the nature of a typical social call from one family on another? What were some of the social events held so that groups of homesteaders could meet and form friendships? What were the usual activities that would occur at these events?

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 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.

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