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Gold Rush
Beigesteuert von: Goers
(Ursprünglicher Autor: Weiss)
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) abandoned
B) beckons
C) fares
D) rugged
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) fares
B) multicultural
C) profitable
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) beckons
B) multicultural
C) profitable
D) rugged
  • 4. The babysitting business we started turned out to be very_____and we made lots of money.
A) profitable
B) abandoned
C) fares
D) rugged
  • 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) profitable
B) multicultural
C) rugged
D) abandoned
  • 7. This nonfiction selection is most like an informational book because it_____.
A) is a series of questions and answers
B) expresses the author's opinion
C) is written in the first person
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) men wanted to ranch
B) land in the East was getting expensive
C) the eastern cities were getting crowded
D) people wanted to own their own land
  • 9. The "forty-niners" were prospectors during the_____.
A) Alaska gold rush
B) gold fever
C) Klondike gold rush
D) California gold rush
  • 10. The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was_____the California gold rush.
A) fifty years after
B) the same time as
C) fifty years before
D) a hundred 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) staking a claim to the land
B) being careless
C) being ready to work at all times
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) claim jump
B) buy it
C) sell it
D) prove ownership
  • 13. The gold found just below the ground's surface is______.
A) placer gold
B) buried gold
C) a gold nugget
D) washed gold
  • 14. According to the selection, new gold miners were sometimes referred to as_____.
A) gold horns
B) grubstakes
C) greenhorns
D) gold dusters
  • 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) they traveled in a covered wagon
C) it was lonelier and people would need less food
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) stake a claim jump
B) find a grubstake
C) build flumes
D) go to a boom town
  • 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) make fake gold
D) build large jewelry businesses
  • 19. What is the advantage to using hydraulic mining, when mining for gold?
A) It would cool them off.
B) I enables miners to get gold buried deep in rock.
C) It didn't use any water.
D) It was more fun than regular mining.
  • 20. What does "hitting pay dirt" mean today?
A) Breaking apart the gold.
B) Finding dirt that has the glitter of gold in it.
C) Discovering something useful, or profitable.
D) Getting dirty.
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