Gold Rush
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) fares
B) rugged
C) beckons
D) abandoned
  • 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) abandoned
B) fares
C) profitable
D) rugged
  • 5. Airplane_____are always more expensive at busy times.
A) multicultural
B) abandoned
C) beckons
D) fares
  • 6. Pioneers traveling west had to be strong, determined, and____to survive the rigors of the trip.
A) rugged
B) profitable
C) multicultural
D) abandoned
  • 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) people wanted to own their own land
B) land in the East was getting expensive
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) gold fever
C) Alaska gold rush
D) California gold rush
  • 10. The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was_____the California gold rush.
A) a hundred years after
B) fifty years before
C) fifty 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) being ready to work at all times
C) staking a claim to the land
D) having someone take them
  • 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) buy it
D) prove ownership
  • 13. The gold found just below the ground's surface is______.
A) buried gold
B) washed gold
C) a gold nugget
D) placer gold
  • 14. According to the selection, new gold miners were sometimes referred to as_____.
A) gold horns
B) gold dusters
C) greenhorns
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) break away large pieces of rock
D) mine gold
  • 16. According to the selection, many people traveled in wagon trains out west because_____.
A) they traveled in a covered wagon
B) they could eat each other's food
C) it was lonelier and people would need less food
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) build flumes
B) go to a boom town
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) 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 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) Finding dirt that has the glitter of gold in it.
B) Discovering something useful, or profitable.
C) Getting dirty.
D) Breaking apart the gold.
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