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Gold Rush
Поширений: Goers
(Розробник: Weiss)
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) beckons
B) fares
C) rugged
D) abandoned
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) fares
B) profitable
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) beckons
C) rugged
D) profitable
  • 4. The babysitting business we started turned out to be very_____and we made lots of money.
A) rugged
B) fares
C) abandoned
D) profitable
  • 5. Airplane_____are always more expensive at busy times.
A) abandoned
B) multicultural
C) fares
D) beckons
  • 6. Pioneers traveling west had to be strong, determined, and____to survive the rigors of the trip.
A) profitable
B) multicultural
C) abandoned
D) rugged
  • 7. This nonfiction selection is most like an informational book because it_____.
A) is a series of questions and answers
B) expresses the author's opinion
C) gives information on a particular topic
D) is written in the first person
  • 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) people wanted to own their own land
C) the eastern cities were getting crowded
D) men wanted to ranch
  • 9. The "forty-niners" were prospectors during the_____.
A) Klondike gold rush
B) California gold rush
C) gold fever
D) Alaska gold rush
  • 10. The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was_____the California gold rush.
A) a hundred years after
B) the same time as
C) fifty years before
D) fifty years after
  • 11. In the early days out west, a prospector would leave his tools on the ground of unsettled land as a way of_____.
A) being ready to work at all times
B) having someone take them
C) staking a claim to the land
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) prove ownership
B) buy it
C) claim jump
D) sell it
  • 13. The gold found just below the ground's surface is______.
A) placer gold
B) washed gold
C) a gold nugget
D) buried 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) wash large amounts of gold
B) break away large pieces of rock
C) mine gold
D) rock a baby to sleep
  • 16. According to the selection, many people traveled in wagon trains out west because_____.
A) they could eat each other's food
B) it was lonelier and people would need less food
C) they traveled in a covered wagon
D) it was safer and people could help each other along the way
  • 17. Sometimes, in order for a prospector to start mining, he had to_____.
A) go to a boom town
B) build flumes
C) find a grubstake
D) stake a claim jump
  • 18. What did many of the former miners in California decide to do for work?
A) build large jewelry businesses
B) go back home
C) make fake gold
D) farm in the valley
  • 19. What is the advantage to using hydraulic mining, when mining for gold?
A) It didn't use any water.
B) I enables miners to get gold buried deep in rock.
C) It was more fun than regular mining.
D) It would cool them off.
  • 20. What does "hitting pay dirt" mean today?
A) Getting dirty.
B) Breaking apart the gold.
C) Finding dirt that has the glitter of gold in it.
D) Discovering something useful, or profitable.
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