Gold Rush
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) rugged
B) fares
C) beckons
D) abandoned
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) multicultural
B) abandoned
C) fares
D) profitable
  • 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) multicultural
C) profitable
D) rugged
  • 4. The babysitting business we started turned out to be very_____and we made lots of money.
A) fares
B) profitable
C) abandoned
D) rugged
  • 5. Airplane_____are always more expensive at busy times.
A) multicultural
B) fares
C) beckons
D) abandoned
  • 6. Pioneers traveling west had to be strong, determined, and____to survive the rigors of the trip.
A) abandoned
B) rugged
C) multicultural
D) profitable
  • 7. This nonfiction selection is most like an informational book because it_____.
A) expresses the author's opinion
B) is a series of questions and answers
C) is written in the first person
D) gives information on a particular topic
  • 8. According to this selection, many people moved to the unsettled West in the early 1800's for all the following except_____.
A) men wanted to ranch
B) land in the East was getting expensive
C) people wanted to own their own land
D) the eastern cities were getting crowded
  • 9. The "forty-niners" were prospectors during the_____.
A) Alaska gold rush
B) Klondike gold rush
C) California gold rush
D) gold fever
  • 10. The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was_____the California gold rush.
A) fifty years after
B) a hundred years after
C) fifty years before
D) the same time as
  • 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) staking a claim to the land
C) being ready to work at all times
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) claim jump
B) sell it
C) prove ownership
D) buy 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) grubstakes
B) gold horns
C) greenhorns
D) gold dusters
  • 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) it was safer and people could help each other along the way
B) they traveled in a covered wagon
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) find a grubstake
B) stake a claim jump
C) build flumes
D) go to a boom town
  • 18. What did many of the former miners in California decide to do for work?
A) farm in the valley
B) go back home
C) make fake gold
D) build large jewelry businesses
  • 19. What is the advantage to using hydraulic mining, when mining for gold?
A) I enables miners to get gold buried deep in rock.
B) It would cool them off.
C) It was more fun than regular mining.
D) It didn't use any water.
  • 20. What does "hitting pay dirt" mean today?
A) Breaking apart the gold.
B) Discovering something useful, or profitable.
C) Finding dirt that has the glitter of gold in it.
D) Getting dirty.
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