Gold Rush
  • 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) abandoned
B) profitable
C) fares
D) multicultural
  • 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) rugged
C) profitable
D) beckons
  • 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) fares
B) abandoned
C) multicultural
D) beckons
  • 6. Pioneers traveling west had to be strong, determined, and____to survive the rigors of the trip.
A) abandoned
B) multicultural
C) profitable
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 written in the first person
D) is a series of questions and answers
  • 8. According to this selection, many people moved to the unsettled West in the early 1800's for all the following except_____.
A) the eastern cities were getting crowded
B) land in the East was getting expensive
C) men wanted to ranch
D) people wanted to own their own land
  • 9. The "forty-niners" were prospectors during the_____.
A) Klondike gold rush
B) California gold rush
C) Alaska gold rush
D) gold fever
  • 10. The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was_____the California gold rush.
A) fifty years before
B) a hundred years after
C) the same time as
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 careless
B) being ready to work at all times
C) having someone take them
D) staking a claim to the land
  • 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) buy it
D) sell it
  • 13. The gold found just below the ground's surface is______.
A) a gold nugget
B) buried gold
C) placer gold
D) washed gold
  • 14. According to the selection, new gold miners were sometimes referred to as_____.
A) greenhorns
B) gold horns
C) gold dusters
D) grubstakes
  • 15. I n this selection, a cradle is used to_____.
A) mine gold
B) wash large amounts of 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) it was safer and people could help each other along the way
B) it was lonelier and people would need less food
C) they could eat each other's food
D) they traveled in a covered wagon
  • 17. Sometimes, in order for a prospector to start mining, he had to_____.
A) find a grubstake
B) go to a boom town
C) build flumes
D) stake a claim jump
  • 18. What did many of the former miners in California decide to do for work?
A) farm in the valley
B) build large jewelry businesses
C) go back home
D) make fake gold
  • 19. What is the advantage to using hydraulic mining, when mining for gold?
A) It was more fun than regular mining.
B) I enables miners to get gold buried deep in rock.
C) It would cool them off.
D) It didn't use any water.
  • 20. What does "hitting pay dirt" mean today?
A) Getting dirty.
B) Finding dirt that has the glitter of gold in it.
C) Discovering something useful, or profitable.
D) Breaking apart the gold.
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