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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following groups is NOT welcome in Larkin County after the arrival of the Ku Klux Klan?
(a) Asians.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Catholics.
(d) Jews.

2. Who is Persifier's wife?
(a) Tessa Mae.
(b) Elizabeth Ann.
(c) Elaine.
(d) Margaret Sue.

3. Yancey gives himself the military title of __________________.
(a) Captain.
(b) General.
(c) Lieutenant.
(d) Sergeant.

4. Peavine is chased out of the county because he is a troublemaker, but he returns and kills a _______________ named Parmenteer.
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Sheriff.
(d) Minister.

5. The Ku Klux Klan appears in Larken County in December of what year?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1900.

6. Colonel Persifier ______________ decides to leave the army after the Mexican War.
(a) Cobb.
(b) Caleb.
(c) Clayton.
(d) Cowan.

7. Whom does Earnshaw Rust marry?
(a) Emma Seames.
(b) Suzanne Malvern.
(c) Elizabeth Morton.
(d) Emma Larkin.

8. Which family is the first to move into one of the abandoned houses at the fort to make a town?
(a) The Frank Yeager family.
(b) The James Kerrigan family.
(c) The Otto McNab family.
(d) The Ernst Klopfer family.

9. How do the army troops force the Indians to surrender and move to the reservations?
(a) They burn their encampments.
(b) They kill off their animals.
(c) They begin to poison them.
(d) They force them at gunpoint.

10. Where is Santa Anna living in exile?
(a) Venezuela.
(b) Panama.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Brazil.

11. Texans Cactus John Garner and ____________________ both become Speakers of the House.
(a) Harley Hatton.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Lyndon Johnson.
(d) Sam Rayburn.

12. The Texas War for Independence ends with Santa Anna ______________________.
(a) Being demoted to a soldier.
(b) Being killed.
(c) Being captured.
(d) Being exiled from Mexico.

13. Which Indians were responsible for mass burning and killing at San Antonio?
(a) Lakotas.
(b) Apaches.
(c) Cherokees.
(d) Comanches.

14. Where does R.J. Poteet take horses and cattle for shipment to the East?
(a) Dodge City.
(b) Waco.
(c) San Antonio.
(d) Kansas City.

15. Captain George Reed is sent to erect a fort which is then named _______________________.
(a) Fort Sam Garner.
(b) Fort Grant.
(c) Fort Reeves.
(d) Fort George Reed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the town that Earnshaw and Emma establish?

2. Which general is sent to Texas to protect the Texas border?

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

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

5. Soon after Texas becomes a state, the ____________________ occurs from 1846-1848.

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