Gold Rush
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) abandoned
B) beckons
C) rugged
D) fares
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) multicultural
B) profitable
C) fares
D) abandoned
  • 3. Each school year our principal assigns one month as____month, and we study about people from many parts of the world.
A) profitable
B) beckons
C) multicultural
D) rugged
  • 4. The babysitting business we started turned out to be very_____and we made lots of money.
A) profitable
B) rugged
C) abandoned
D) fares
  • 5. Airplane_____are always more expensive at busy times.
A) abandoned
B) multicultural
C) beckons
D) fares
  • 6. Pioneers traveling west had to be strong, determined, and____to survive the rigors of the trip.
A) multicultural
B) profitable
C) abandoned
D) rugged
  • 7. This nonfiction selection is most like an informational book because it_____.
A) gives information on a particular topic
B) expresses the author's opinion
C) is a series of questions and answers
D) is written in the first person
  • 8. According to this selection, many people moved to the unsettled West in the early 1800's for all the following except_____.
A) people wanted to own their own land
B) men wanted to ranch
C) the eastern cities were getting crowded
D) land in the East was getting expensive
  • 9. The "forty-niners" were prospectors during the_____.
A) Alaska gold rush
B) Klondike gold rush
C) gold fever
D) California gold rush
  • 10. The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was_____the California gold rush.
A) fifty years after
B) a hundred years after
C) the same time as
D) fifty years before
  • 11. In the early days out west, a prospector would leave his tools on the ground of unsettled land as a way of_____.
A) being careless
B) being ready to work at all times
C) staking a claim to the land
D) having someone take them
  • 12. It is important to register a land claim because then the prospector could do all of the following with the land except____.
A) sell it
B) prove ownership
C) claim jump
D) buy it
  • 13. The gold found just below the ground's surface is______.
A) a gold nugget
B) placer gold
C) washed gold
D) buried gold
  • 14. According to the selection, new gold miners were sometimes referred to as_____.
A) gold horns
B) greenhorns
C) gold dusters
D) grubstakes
  • 15. I n this selection, a cradle is used to_____.
A) break away large pieces of rock
B) rock a baby to sleep
C) wash large amounts of gold
D) mine gold
  • 16. According to the selection, many people traveled in wagon trains out west because_____.
A) they traveled in a covered wagon
B) it was safer and people could help each other along the way
C) it was lonelier and people would need less food
D) they could eat each other's food
  • 17. Sometimes, in order for a prospector to start mining, he had to_____.
A) find a grubstake
B) build flumes
C) go to a boom town
D) stake a claim jump
  • 18. What did many of the former miners in California decide to do for work?
A) build large jewelry businesses
B) make fake gold
C) farm in the valley
D) go back home
  • 19. What is the advantage to using hydraulic mining, when mining for gold?
A) It didn't use any water.
B) It was more fun than regular mining.
C) I enables miners to get gold buried deep in rock.
D) It would cool them off.
  • 20. What does "hitting pay dirt" mean today?
A) Finding dirt that has the glitter of gold in it.
B) Getting dirty.
C) Discovering something useful, or profitable.
D) Breaking apart the gold.
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