Gold Rush
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) rugged
B) abandoned
C) fares
D) beckons
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) profitable
B) fares
C) multicultural
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) profitable
B) beckons
C) rugged
D) multicultural
  • 4. The babysitting business we started turned out to be very_____and we made lots of money.
A) abandoned
B) rugged
C) fares
D) profitable
  • 5. Airplane_____are always more expensive at busy times.
A) multicultural
B) abandoned
C) fares
D) beckons
  • 6. Pioneers traveling west had to be strong, determined, and____to survive the rigors of the trip.
A) rugged
B) multicultural
C) abandoned
D) profitable
  • 7. This nonfiction selection is most like an informational book because it_____.
A) expresses the author's opinion
B) is a series of questions and answers
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) people wanted to own their own land
B) the eastern cities were getting crowded
C) men wanted to ranch
D) land in the East was getting expensive
  • 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) the same time as
B) a hundred years after
C) fifty years after
D) fifty years before
  • 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) buy it
C) sell it
D) prove ownership
  • 13. The gold found just below the ground's surface is______.
A) washed gold
B) a gold nugget
C) placer gold
D) buried gold
  • 14. According to the selection, new gold miners were sometimes referred to as_____.
A) grubstakes
B) gold horns
C) gold dusters
D) greenhorns
  • 15. I n this selection, a cradle is used to_____.
A) rock a baby to sleep
B) mine gold
C) wash large amounts of gold
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) it was safer and people could help each other along the way
C) it was lonelier and people would need less food
D) they could eat each other's food
  • 17. Sometimes, in order for a prospector to start mining, he had to_____.
A) find a grubstake
B) build flumes
C) stake a claim jump
D) go to a boom town
  • 18. What did many of the former miners in California decide to do for work?
A) build large jewelry businesses
B) farm in the valley
C) make fake gold
D) go back home
  • 19. What is the advantage to using hydraulic mining, when mining for gold?
A) It didn't use any water.
B) I enables miners to get gold buried deep in rock.
C) It was more fun than regular mining.
D) It would cool them off.
  • 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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