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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is it in Chapter XII?

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

3. What happens to the Germans at Fredericksbug who can't support the Civil War?

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

5. In Chapter XII, what is the largest city in Texas?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do so many people seem to move to Texas between 1928 and 1968? Who are two famous political men who came from Texas?

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

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

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

6. What time period does Chapter VII cover?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain some of the examples of regionalism found in the book. Can regionalism include more than accents and food? What else encompasses the culture and personality of a region?

Essay Topic 2

What positions, other than wife and mother, did most Texas prairie women hold? What was expected of a prairie woman by others? What expectations did she place on herself? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the process of breaking ground and planting crops. Which crops were experimented with by the homesteaders? Which crops became the staples for Texas homesteaders? Are those crops the primary crops for Texas yet today?

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