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Gold Rush
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) fares
B) abandoned
C) beckons
D) rugged
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) fares
B) abandoned
C) multicultural
D) profitable
  • 3. Each school year our principal assigns one month as____month, and we study about people from many parts of the world.
A) multicultural
B) beckons
C) rugged
D) profitable
  • 4. The babysitting business we started turned out to be very_____and we made lots of money.
A) fares
B) abandoned
C) rugged
D) profitable
  • 5. Airplane_____are always more expensive at busy times.
A) multicultural
B) fares
C) abandoned
D) beckons
  • 6. Pioneers traveling west had to be strong, determined, and____to survive the rigors of the trip.
A) abandoned
B) multicultural
C) rugged
D) profitable
  • 7. This nonfiction selection is most like an informational book because it_____.
A) is written in the first person
B) expresses the author's opinion
C) is a series of questions and answers
D) gives information on a particular topic
  • 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) the eastern cities were getting crowded
C) land in the East was getting expensive
D) men wanted to ranch
  • 9. The "forty-niners" were prospectors during the_____.
A) California gold rush
B) gold fever
C) Alaska gold rush
D) Klondike gold rush
  • 10. The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was_____the California gold rush.
A) a hundred years after
B) the same time as
C) fifty years before
D) fifty years after
  • 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 ready to work at all times
B) staking a claim to the land
C) having someone take them
D) being careless
  • 12. It is important to register a land claim because then the prospector could do all of the following with the land except____.
A) claim jump
B) prove ownership
C) sell it
D) buy it
  • 13. The gold found just below the ground's surface is______.
A) placer gold
B) washed gold
C) buried gold
D) a gold nugget
  • 14. According to the selection, new gold miners were sometimes referred to as_____.
A) greenhorns
B) gold dusters
C) gold horns
D) grubstakes
  • 15. I n this selection, a cradle is used to_____.
A) wash large amounts of gold
B) mine gold
C) break away large pieces of rock
D) rock a baby to sleep
  • 16. According to the selection, many people traveled in wagon trains out west because_____.
A) they could eat each other's food
B) it was lonelier and people would need less food
C) they traveled in a covered wagon
D) it was safer and people could help each other along the way
  • 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) go back home
B) farm in the valley
C) build large jewelry businesses
D) make fake gold
  • 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) It would cool them off.
D) I enables miners to get gold buried deep in rock.
  • 20. What does "hitting pay dirt" mean today?
A) Discovering something useful, or profitable.
B) Getting dirty.
C) Finding dirt that has the glitter of gold in it.
D) Breaking apart the gold.
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