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Gold Rush
Prispevano od: Goers
(Avtor originala: Weiss)
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) fares
B) rugged
C) abandoned
D) beckons
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) profitable
B) abandoned
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) profitable
B) beckons
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) profitable
D) abandoned
  • 5. Airplane_____are always more expensive at busy times.
A) multicultural
B) beckons
C) abandoned
D) fares
  • 6. Pioneers traveling west had to be strong, determined, and____to survive the rigors of the trip.
A) multicultural
B) abandoned
C) rugged
D) profitable
  • 7. This nonfiction selection is most like an informational book because it_____.
A) is a series of questions and answers
B) gives information on a particular topic
C) is written in the first person
D) expresses the author's opinion
  • 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) the eastern cities were getting crowded
C) land in the East was getting expensive
D) people wanted to own their own land
  • 9. The "forty-niners" were prospectors during the_____.
A) Klondike gold rush
B) gold fever
C) Alaska gold rush
D) California gold rush
  • 10. The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was_____the California gold rush.
A) fifty years before
B) fifty years after
C) a hundred years after
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) being careless
B) staking a claim to the land
C) having someone take them
D) being ready to work at all times
  • 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) a gold nugget
C) buried gold
D) placer gold
  • 14. According to the selection, new gold miners were sometimes referred to as_____.
A) gold horns
B) greenhorns
C) gold dusters
D) grubstakes
  • 15. I n this selection, a cradle is used to_____.
A) rock a baby to sleep
B) wash large amounts of gold
C) mine gold
D) break away large pieces of rock
  • 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 could eat each other's food
C) they traveled in a covered wagon
D) it was lonelier and people would need less food
  • 17. Sometimes, in order for a prospector to start mining, he had to_____.
A) stake a claim jump
B) build flumes
C) go to a boom town
D) find a grubstake
  • 18. What did many of the former miners in California decide to do for work?
A) go back home
B) make fake gold
C) build large jewelry businesses
D) farm in the valley
  • 19. What is the advantage to using hydraulic mining, when mining for gold?
A) It was more fun than regular mining.
B) It would cool them off.
C) It didn't use any water.
D) I enables miners to get gold buried deep in rock.
  • 20. What does "hitting pay dirt" mean today?
A) Discovering something useful, or profitable.
B) Finding dirt that has the glitter of gold in it.
C) Getting dirty.
D) Breaking apart the gold.
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