Gold Rush
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) abandoned
B) rugged
C) fares
D) beckons
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) multicultural
B) abandoned
C) profitable
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) beckons
C) profitable
D) multicultural
  • 4. The babysitting business we started turned out to be very_____and we made lots of money.
A) rugged
B) profitable
C) abandoned
D) fares
  • 5. Airplane_____are always more expensive at busy times.
A) beckons
B) fares
C) abandoned
D) multicultural
  • 6. Pioneers traveling west had to be strong, determined, and____to survive the rigors of the trip.
A) profitable
B) multicultural
C) abandoned
D) rugged
  • 7. This nonfiction selection is most like an informational book because it_____.
A) expresses the author's opinion
B) gives information on a particular topic
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) men wanted to ranch
B) the eastern cities were getting crowded
C) land in the East was getting expensive
D) people wanted to own their own land
  • 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 before
B) fifty years after
C) a hundred years after
D) the same time as
  • 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 careless
D) being ready to work at all times
  • 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) 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) grubstakes
B) greenhorns
C) gold dusters
D) gold horns
  • 15. I n this selection, a cradle is used to_____.
A) wash large amounts of gold
B) mine gold
C) rock a baby to sleep
D) break away large pieces of rock
  • 16. According to the selection, many people traveled in wagon trains out west because_____.
A) they traveled in a covered wagon
B) they could eat each other's food
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) go to a boom town
B) stake a claim jump
C) find a grubstake
D) build flumes
  • 18. What did many of the former miners in California decide to do for work?
A) go back home
B) make fake gold
C) farm in the valley
D) build large jewelry businesses
  • 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 didn't use any water.
C) It was more fun than regular mining.
D) It would cool them off.
  • 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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