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Gold Rush
Prispevano od: Goers
(Avtor originala: Weiss)
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) rugged
B) beckons
C) abandoned
D) fares
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) profitable
B) fares
C) abandoned
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) profitable
C) rugged
D) abandoned
  • 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) abandoned
B) multicultural
C) profitable
D) rugged
  • 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) is a series of questions and answers
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) land in the East was getting expensive
B) the eastern cities were getting crowded
C) men wanted to ranch
D) people wanted to own their own land
  • 9. The "forty-niners" were prospectors during the_____.
A) Alaska gold rush
B) gold fever
C) California gold rush
D) Klondike gold rush
  • 10. The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was_____the California gold rush.
A) a hundred years after
B) fifty years after
C) the same time as
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) 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) sell it
B) prove ownership
C) claim jump
D) buy it
  • 13. The gold found just below the ground's surface is______.
A) washed gold
B) a gold nugget
C) buried gold
D) placer gold
  • 14. According to the selection, new gold miners were sometimes referred to as_____.
A) greenhorns
B) grubstakes
C) gold dusters
D) gold horns
  • 15. I n this selection, a cradle is used to_____.
A) mine gold
B) break away large pieces of rock
C) rock a baby to sleep
D) wash large amounts of gold
  • 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 traveled in a covered wagon
D) they could eat each other's food
  • 17. Sometimes, in order for a prospector to start mining, he had to_____.
A) stake a claim jump
B) go to a boom town
C) find a grubstake
D) build flumes
  • 18. What did many of the former miners in California decide to do for work?
A) make fake gold
B) farm in the valley
C) build large jewelry businesses
D) go back home
  • 19. What is the advantage to using hydraulic mining, when mining for gold?
A) It would cool them off.
B) It was more fun than regular mining.
C) I enables miners to get gold buried deep in rock.
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) Discovering something useful, or profitable.
C) Breaking apart the gold.
D) Getting dirty.
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