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