Chapter 27 Texas Quiz

The songs and spirituals sung by enslaved African Americans helped produce the distinctive musical styles of blues and jazz in Texas.

• True

• False

The city of Houston calls itself the Live Music Capital of the World.

• True

• False

Hieroglyphics are rock carvings made by prehistoric artists.

• True

• False

Like the rest of the United States, Texas’s percentage of people living in rural areas has grown steadily.

• True

• False

In 2010, the state population of Texas included a higher percentage of people over age 65 in comparison to the percentage of people under age 18.

• True

• False

Author of short story collections about the lives of Mexican Americans such as Woman Hollering Creek.

• A. Roy Bedichek

• B. Walter Prescott Webb

• C. J. Mason Brewer

• D. Sandra Cisneros

• E. Rolando Hinojosa

Wrote observations of natural world and philosophical ideas in Adventures With a Texas Naturalist.

• A. Roy Bedichek

• B. Walter Prescott Webb

• C. J. Mason Brewer

• D. Sandra Cisneros

• E. Rolando Hinojosa

Author of the Kliail City Death Trip series, which is set in Texas and written in Spanish.

• A. Roy Bedichek

• B. Walter Prescott Webb

• C. J. Mason Brewer

• D. Sandra Cisneros

• E. Rolando Hinojosa

Author of tales of African Americans told in The Word on the Brazos.

• A. Roy Bedichek

• B. Walter Prescott Webb

• C. J. Mason Brewer

• D. Sandra Cisneros

• E. Rolando Hinojosa

Author of The Texas Rangers and adventure stories of new settlers on the Plains.

• A. Roy Bedichek

• B. Walter Prescott Webb

• C. J. Mason Brewer

• D. Sandra Cisneros

• E. Rolando Hinojosa