Wild Horses
  • 1. What happens after this event, 'Wild horses lost access to food and water.'
A) Congress acted to save wild horses.
B) Thousands of mustangs were killed.
C) Local residents fed the wild mustangs.
D) Ranchers captured and tamed wild mustangs.
  • 2. Which word best describes Dayton Hyde?
A) easygoing
B) humorous
C) greedy
D) determined
  • 3. Where were the wild mustangs when Hyde first saw them?
A) In government feedlots waiting to be adopted.
B) In pens waiting to be killed for pet food.
C) On ranches being worked too hard in bad weather.
D) On the range, starving to death in the cold.
  • 4. Dayton Hyde moved the band of wild horses to
A) a working ranch near Cheyenne
B) a special place in South Dakota
C) a large national park in Oregon
D) his family's land in Michigan
  • 5. Why did Dayton Hyde decide to move the horses?
A) His uncle told him to do it.
B) He thought they looked miserable and hungry.
C) He had always dreamed of wild horses.
D) The government told him to.
  • 6. To make sure the wild horses did not wander into the neighbors' wheat fields, Dayton Hyde had to
A) watch them constantly
B) build miles of fences
C) move the horses to canyons
D) train a lead horse
  • 7. Read this sentence from the article: Mustangs are descendants of the horses brought to America by Spanish explorers nearly five hundred years ago. What does the word 'descendants' mean?
A) relatives
B) servants
C) owners
D) enemies
  • 8. Read this sentence. Dayton did not want the horses to feel 'threatened.' The word 'threatened' means...
A) special
B) cold
C) in danger
D) all alone
  • 9. Read this sentence. The Western rangeland must be protected because it is 'fragile.' What does the word 'fragile' mean?
A) valuable
B) beautiful
C) easily damaged
D) often visited
  • 10. Before barbed wire fences were built on the rangelands what were the horses doing?
A) Very few horses lived on the rangeland, they were mostly in the East.
B) Before the barbed wire was put up the horses were not wild.
C) The wild horses would corral themselves in caves for safety.
D) More than two million wild horses roamed the West.
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