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

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

3. Benito Garza becomes a ___________________.
(a) Politician.
(b) Minister.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Bandit.

4. Why does Yancey Quimper withdraw from the political race?
(a) He has family obligations to tend to.
(b) He buys a new ranch instead.
(c) Earnshaw Rusk exposes his fraud.
(d) He is injured and cannot serve.

5. Hector Garza lives in an area where ________________ of the population is Hispanic.
(a) 45.
(b) 60.
(c) 85.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Santa Anna living in exile?

3. Where do Sett and Lissa purchase land in Texas?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is R.J. Poteet and what role does he play in the new town?

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

3. Why does the Republic of Texas come to an end and on what date does that occur?

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

5. What time period does Chapter VII cover?

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

7. How does Yancey come to own the ten thousand acres owned by the Garza women?

8. What was the purpose of the Peace Policy instituted by President Polk in 1869?

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

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

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