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Gold Rush
Contribué par: Goers
(Auteur original: Weiss)
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) rugged
B) beckons
C) fares
D) abandoned
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) abandoned
B) profitable
C) multicultural
D) fares
  • 3. Each school year our principal assigns one month as____month, and we study about people from many parts of the world.
A) rugged
B) multicultural
C) beckons
D) profitable
  • 4. The babysitting business we started turned out to be very_____and we made lots of money.
A) fares
B) profitable
C) abandoned
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) rugged
B) profitable
C) abandoned
D) multicultural
  • 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) gives information on a particular topic
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) men wanted to ranch
B) land in the East was getting expensive
C) people wanted to own their own land
D) the eastern cities were getting crowded
  • 9. The "forty-niners" were prospectors during the_____.
A) gold fever
B) Alaska gold rush
C) California gold rush
D) Klondike 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) having someone take them
C) being ready to work at all times
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) buy it
B) claim jump
C) prove ownership
D) sell it
  • 13. The gold found just below the ground's surface is______.
A) placer gold
B) a gold nugget
C) washed gold
D) buried gold
  • 14. According to the selection, new gold miners were sometimes referred to as_____.
A) gold dusters
B) greenhorns
C) grubstakes
D) gold horns
  • 15. I n this selection, a cradle is used to_____.
A) wash large amounts of gold
B) break away large pieces of rock
C) rock a baby to sleep
D) mine gold
  • 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 safer and people could help each other along the way
D) it was lonelier and people would need less food
  • 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) go back home
B) build large jewelry businesses
C) make fake gold
D) farm in the valley
  • 19. What is the advantage to using hydraulic mining, when mining for gold?
A) I enables miners to get gold buried deep in rock.
B) It would cool them off.
C) It was more fun than regular mining.
D) It didn't use any water.
  • 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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