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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a prominent nationality of a school in Texas?
(a) English.
(b) Russian.
(c) Italian.
(d) German.

2. Why had neither the Spanish nor the Mexicans tried to tame the Texas Hill Country?
(a) It was too hilly.
(b) It was too beautiful to tame.
(c) It was very resistant.
(d) It was desert.

3. What was a key to surviving in the Texas Hill Country?
(a) Understanding the Comanche people.
(b) Learning how to rotate crops.
(c) Installing irrigation.
(d) Building sod houses.

4. Profits dropped so low for the group in #27 that they could not afford to buy _____________.
(a) seed.
(b) offices.
(c) implements.
(d) livestock.

5. How much land did the Bunton family still own in the Hill Country of Texas at the time this book was written?
(a) 200 acres.
(b) 1,000 acres.
(c) 500 acres.
(d) 50 acres.

Short Answer Questions

1. What element was a great moneymaker for Texas in the first part of the 20th century?

2. What was one of the jobs of the farmhands on the Johnson farm?

3. At what type of job did Lyndon earn a good living?

4. What was rare about Lyndon's mother living in the 19th century?

5. What was Lyndon's father's profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the significance of the town of Cotulla in Lyndon's life?

2. How did the author describe the Texas Hill Country?

3. What are the physical characteristics of the Bunton side of Lyndon's ancestry?

4. Who was John Wheeler Bunton and for what was he famous?

5. What is the significance of the title of Chapter 9--The Rich Man's Daughter?

6. What was the agenda of the People's Party?

7. What unusual habit did the young Lyndon have and how did it involve farm hands and others associated with the family?

8. What was the ethnic issue in education in Texas?

9. What were some of the challenges of the farmers in the Texas Hill Country?

10. How old was Lyndon when he was named and what forced the issue to determine his name?

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