Gold Rush
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) abandoned
B) beckons
C) rugged
D) fares
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) abandoned
B) profitable
C) multicultural
D) fares
  • 3. Each school year our principal assigns one month as____month, and we study about people from many parts of the world.
A) beckons
B) profitable
C) multicultural
D) rugged
  • 4. The babysitting business we started turned out to be very_____and we made lots of money.
A) fares
B) rugged
C) abandoned
D) profitable
  • 5. Airplane_____are always more expensive at busy times.
A) fares
B) beckons
C) abandoned
D) multicultural
  • 6. Pioneers traveling west had to be strong, determined, and____to survive the rigors of the trip.
A) profitable
B) abandoned
C) multicultural
D) rugged
  • 7. This nonfiction selection is most like an informational book because it_____.
A) gives information on a particular topic
B) is written in the first person
C) expresses the author's opinion
D) is a series of questions and answers
  • 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) gold fever
B) Klondike gold rush
C) Alaska gold rush
D) California gold rush
  • 10. The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was_____the California gold rush.
A) fifty years after
B) a hundred 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) having someone take them
B) being careless
C) being ready to work at all times
D) staking a claim to the land
  • 12. It is important to register a land claim because then the prospector could do all of the following with the land except____.
A) buy it
B) prove ownership
C) sell it
D) claim jump
  • 13. The gold found just below the ground's surface is______.
A) washed gold
B) placer gold
C) buried gold
D) a gold nugget
  • 14. According to the selection, new gold miners were sometimes referred to as_____.
A) grubstakes
B) greenhorns
C) gold dusters
D) gold horns
  • 15. I n this selection, a cradle is used to_____.
A) mine gold
B) rock a baby to sleep
C) break away large pieces of rock
D) wash large amounts of gold
  • 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) go to a boom town
B) build flumes
C) stake a claim jump
D) find a grubstake
  • 18. What did many of the former miners in California decide to do for work?
A) go back home
B) farm in the valley
C) make fake gold
D) build large jewelry businesses
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