News of the World Test | Final Test - Easy

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News of the World Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do Captain Kidd and Johanna leave Lampasas?
(a) Before daylight.
(b) Mid morning.
(c) Middle of the night.
(d) High noon.

2. Where does Johanna say she would like to return to?
(a) Indian country.
(b) Spanish Fort.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Wichita Falls.

3. Where does Captain Kidd park the Curative Waters wagon when he reaches Durand?
(a) A tavern.
(b) A stave mill.
(c) A hotel.
(d) A field on the edge of town.

4. What does Captain Kidd look for in the tight spirals of buzzards?
(a) Signs of game nearby.
(b) Signs of a dead body nearby.
(c) Signs of other travelers.
(d) Signs of water.

5. What does Captain Kidd say his daughter Elizabeth will enjoy, once she comes to San Antonio from the East?
(a) Tutoring Johanna.
(b) Setting up a new printing shop for him.
(c) Raising her kids in a city.
(d) Clearing the title to the family land.

6. When Captain Kidd and Johanna encounter the patrol in the road to Durand, how does Captain Kidd avoid answering the question put by the Captain, about who he voted for, for governor?
(a) He says he is offended.
(b) He pretends not to have heard.
(c) He says he was not in the state at the time.
(d) He claims not to speak English.

7. How does Captain Kidd surprise the Mexican women washing clothes in Alazan Creek in San Antonio?
(a) By joining them in their washing.
(b) By calling out saucy things to them.
(c) By answering their saucy things in Spanish.
(d) By recognizing some of them.

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

9. What does Captain Kidd think should be done to people who are “born unsupplied with a human conscience” (110)?
(a) They should be killed.
(b) They should be re-educated.
(c) They should be deported.
(d) They should be quarantined.

10. What does Captain Kidd have to prevent Johanna from doing, at the end of the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
(a) Pursuing and killing the Caddos.
(b) Dismembering Almay.
(c) Spitting on Almay’s body.
(d) Scalping Almay.

11. In Chapter 20, what does Wilhelm say Johanna must learn again?
(a) To work.
(b) English.
(c) Numbers.
(d) To pray.

12. What does Captain Kidd think about doing, as a last ditch measure, to keep Almay from taking Johanna?
(a) Killing her.
(b) Going on a suicide mission to buy her time to flee.
(c) Hiding her in a cave.
(d) Burning the woods.

13. What does Johanna sing to herself, when she sits with Captain Kidd and her aunt and uncle in Chapter 20?
(a) A death song.
(b) A war song.
(c) A Kiowa song calling for help.
(d) A curse on her tormentors.

14. What is Captain Kidd concerned with, as he descends from Carlyle Springs?
(a) His bleeding wound.
(b) The iron wheel on the wagon.
(c) Fancy’s shoes.
(d) The brakes on the wagon.

15. What does the narrator say are the raiders’ favorite targets?
(a) Government forts.
(b) Frontier towns.
(c) Isolated farms.
(d) Single travelers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it about Pasha that keeps Captain Kidd from considering making a run for it, to escape from Almay and the Caddos?

2. What does Captain Kidd say we are supposed to do with the message we carry through life?

3. What are Quakers associated with, on the Texas frontier?

4. How does Captain Kidd refer to the Daily State Journal?

5. What do the Horrell brothers say is their claim to fame?

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