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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. Todd Morrison becomes a multimillionaire in which industry?
(a) Oil.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Real estate.
(d) Communications.

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

3. A black man and Floyd Rusk go into the _____________ business together.
(a) Oil.
(b) Railroad.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Cattle.

4. Under President ___________________, a new Peace Policy regarding the Indians was implemented in 1869.
(a) Coolidge.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Grant.
(d) Harding.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Peavine is chased out of the county because he is a troublemaker, but he returns and kills a _______________ named Parmenteer.

3. What does the man who works with Otto study?

4. Laurel Cobb's cotton crop is ruined by __________________.

5. Why does Laurel face trial within his church?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Earnshaw and Emma go about building a town?

2. What responsibilities does Earnshaw assume for the town and what is it eventually named?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does the speaker at the Task Force meeting think that Texas was greatly influenced by the South?

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

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