News of the World Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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News of the World Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the “two major combatants” in the fight that breaks out during Captain Kidd’s Durand reading?
(a) A hotel owner and a school teacher.
(b) A soldier and a printer.
(c) A rancher and a farm hand.
(d) A broom mill owner and a farmer.

2. What measure does Captain Kidd take, as they enter into the dangerous hill country?
(a) He mutes the iron wheels with leather.
(b) He loads the guns and keeps them across his lap.
(c) He rides ahead on the bay horse Pasha.
(d) He abandons the Curative Waters wagon.

3. Why does Captain Kidd decline Doris’ offer to leave Johanna with her and Simon?
(a) Johanna refuses to allow it.
(b) Simon gets Doris to withdraw the offer.
(c) He says that he has taken money to return her.
(d) He says that he is planning to keep her himself.

4. What does Captain Kidd give the old lady he and Johanna meet, in a gig, riding back toward Durand?
(a) A letter for the mill owner they stayed with.
(b) A letter for her to post.
(c) Dimes for John Calley.
(d) Money to pay for the chickens Johanna took.

5. What does Captain Kidd feel compelled to do, when Almay offers him money for Johanna?
(a) Shoot him.
(b) Run.
(c) Call the soldiers who were attending the reading.
(d) Accept his offer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Mrs. Gannet’s anger about Almay’s proposal have on Captain Kidd?

2. What does Captain Kidd learn Johanna knows how to do, after the meeting with the cavalry in Chapter 5?

3. What does Captain Kidd leave Durand without buying?

4. Where does Captain Kidd hide his .38 cartridges?

5. What do the people argue about, when they disrupt Captain Kidd’s reading in Durand?

(see the answer key)

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