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King Ranch Articles: Multiple Choice Exercise

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1. Richard King and his descendants built an empire around the world encompassing more than how many acres?

  1. 10 million
  2. 14 million
  3. 20 million
  4. 11 million

2.    Richard King convinced an entire Mexican town to work for him on his ranch, and they became known as King’s people or

  1. Kinenos
  2. Kingos
  3. Santa Gertrudians
  4. King’s Vaqueros

3.    Which of the following did the King Ranch not develop?

  1. cattle prod
  2. dipping vats
  3. grasses
  4. the first American breed of cattle
  5. the ranch developed all of the above

4.    After coming to Texas in 1847, Richard King made his fortune

  1. as a cotton grower
  2. running contraband cotton to Mexico during the Civil War
  3. selling weapons to the Confederacy
  4. moving Union troops and equipment

5.    King’s wife, Henrietta Chamberlain King, was the daughter of

  1. a prominent merchant in Brownsville
  2. an officer in the military
  3. a Presbyterian preacher
  4. a railroad executive

6.    The discovery of _______in 1899 ensured the success of the ranch and the development of South Texas

  1. an artesian water well
  2. oil
  3. gold
  4. a new cattle breed

7.    According to the article, "The Legendary King Ranch," Richard King paid ______dollars for his first 15,500 acres in South Texas.

  1. $600
  2. $300
  3. $6000
  4. $600

8.    The so-called "wasteland" where King established his ranch near Santa Gertrudis Creek was marked on maps as

  1. the mustang wasteland
  2. the outback
  3. the wild horse desert
  4. the wild, wild west

9.    The later famous Confederate general who advised King to "buy and never sell" was

  1. Robert E. Lee
  2. Richard Keith Kyle
  3. Fred H. Allison
  4. Damond Kennedy

10.    Following Henrietta King’s death, which of the following did not drain the ranch’s income

  1. a 1930s drought
  2. low cattle prices
  3. estate taxes
  4. oil and gas leases

11.    The name of the bull which was the beginning of the Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle was named

  1. Jethro
  2. Lucky
  3. Kleberg
  4. Monkey

12.    Which of the following King Ranch Thoroughbreds won the triple crown of horse racing in 1946?

  1. Assault
  2. Middleground
  3. Peppy San Badger
  4. Mr. San Peppy

13.    According to American humorist Will Rogers, who visited the ranch in 1931, he knew the King Ranch was a good cow outfit because of their good

  1. coffee
  2. cobbler
  3. beans
  4. cowboys

14.    The brand used on King Ranch cattle as well as on products produced in the saddle shop is called the

  1. Lazy SC) Double U
  2. Running WD) Crooked U

15.    According to the article, "When We Were Kings," Tio Kleberg knew where all 100 pastures and 320______were located.

  1. windmills
  2. cutting horses
  3. thoroughbreds
  4. oil wells

16.    For_____generations, the King Ranch has remained in the hands of one family.

  1. three
  2. four
  3. five
  4. six

17.    At one time, South Texas, a difficult place to raise cattle, was known as

  1. the desert of the dead
  2. the enchanted desert
  3. the brushy wasteland
  4. none of the above

18.    Today, King Ranch cow bosses are called

  1. head cowboys
  2. cattle foremen
  3. unit managers
  4. big, bad cow bosses

19.    To heat branding irons today, cowboys on the King Ranch use

  1. butane burners
  2. electrical outlets
  3. large fires
  4. chemicals

20.    In the 1870s, Richard King’s cattle outfit was called

  1. R. King and Company
  2. King Ranch Incorporated
  3. South Texas Cattle Company
  4. Kinenos Cattle Company

21.    Upon Richard King’s death, his wife, Henrietta, wore ________-colored clothing for the rest of her life.

  1. green
  2. black
  3. white
  4. red

22.    According to the article, When We Were Kings," the period of devastating drought in the early 1890s was called

  1. the big dry spell
  2. the desert time
  3. the big die
  4. the time of little rain

23.    Tio Kleberg attended college at

  1. Texas Tech University
  2. Texas A&M University
  3. The University of Texas
  4. The University of Houston

24.    The problems for the King Ranch after 1974 had to do with

  1. a generation which did not know about ranching but wanted the ranch’s oil royalties
  2. a generation which wanted to sell all the ranch’s lands in Texas
  3. not making enough money off of oil and gas exploration
  4. cattle prices that were too low

25.    In the 1990s, the Florida enterprise which made the most money for King Ranch Incorporated was

  1. citrus groves
  2. a new cattle breed
  3. cotton and milo
  4. a sod farm

26.    Tio Kleberg managed the King Ranch cattle operations for_______years.

  1. 15
  2. 22
  3. 12
  4. 28

27.    The new CEO and business leader of the King Ranch is_______, a graduate of the Harvard Business School.

  1. James Clement
  2. Tio Kleberg
  3. Jack Hunt
  4. John Alexander

28.    The name "Tio" was a nickname given to Stephen Kleberg as a teenager by Kinenos who thought he was like his

  1. grandfather
  2. father
  3. uncle
  4. great-grandfather

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