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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color eyes did the Buntons have?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Green.
(c) Dark brown.
(d) Blue.

2. How long after the animals in #20 were brought to the Texas Hill Country did the landscape deteriorate?
(a) Two summers.
(b) Five years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Three years.

3. What was the grassy part of the state in #10 called?
(a) The Great Plains.
(b) The Grasslands.
(c) Hill Country.
(d) The Prairie.

4. According to the author, ambition and big ideas can lead to ________________.
(a) ruin.
(b) success.
(c) greed.
(d) fame.

5. Who was offering Lyndon the opportunity for a secure financial future?
(a) A professor.
(b) An employer.
(c) His mother.
(d) An older man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wrecked the terrain of the Texas Hill Country?

2. How old was Lyndon Johnson when the author wrote about him in the Introduction?

3. What was the name of the political group in the South which did not follow the white-supremacist political route?

4. From what state did Lyndon come?

5. How was the complexion of the Buntons described?

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