Wild Horses
  • 1. What happens after this event, 'Wild horses lost access to food and water.'
A) Congress acted to save wild horses.
B) Ranchers captured and tamed wild mustangs.
C) Local residents fed the wild mustangs.
D) Thousands of mustangs were killed.
  • 2. Which word best describes Dayton Hyde?
A) humorous
B) greedy
C) determined
D) easygoing
  • 3. Where were the wild mustangs when Hyde first saw them?
A) In pens waiting to be killed for pet food.
B) On the range, starving to death in the cold.
C) In government feedlots waiting to be adopted.
D) On ranches being worked too hard in bad weather.
  • 4. Dayton Hyde moved the band of wild horses to
A) a large national park in Oregon
B) a working ranch near Cheyenne
C) a special place in South Dakota
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) The government told him to.
D) He had always dreamed of wild horses.
  • 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) servants
B) owners
C) enemies
D) relatives
  • 8. Read this sentence. Dayton did not want the horses to feel 'threatened.' The word 'threatened' means...
A) cold
B) all alone
C) in danger
D) special
  • 9. Read this sentence. The Western rangeland must be protected because it is 'fragile.' What does the word 'fragile' mean?
A) often visited
B) beautiful
C) valuable
D) easily damaged
  • 10. Before barbed wire fences were built on the rangelands what were the horses doing?
A) More than two million wild horses roamed the West.
B) The wild horses would corral themselves in caves for safety.
C) Before the barbed wire was put up the horses were not wild.
D) Very few horses lived on the rangeland, they were mostly in the East.
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