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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what does Captain Kidd light his reading by?
(a) A candle.
(b) A taper.
(c) A bull’s-eye lantern.
(d) An oil lamp.

2. Where was Jefferson Kyle Kidd hit during the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?
(a) In the head.
(b) In the hip.
(c) In the foot.
(d) In the shoulder.

3. What has Johanna made for supper, when Captain Kidd brings Simon and his girlfriend Doris Dillon back to the wagon from Spanish Fort?
(a) Cornbread and bacon.
(b) Johnny cakes and grits.
(c) Rabbit stew.
(d) Roast chicken.

4. What is Johanna’s reaction when Captain Kidd shows her his weapons in Chapter 4?
(a) She refuses to concede that she is on his side.
(b) She shows him that he has given her reassurance.
(c) She hides her intention to seize the weapons.
(d) She expresses doubt about his fitness to use them.

5. What happens to Johanna’s native clothing?
(a) She saves it in her pack.
(b) It is donated to a museum.
(c) It is thrown out a window.
(d) It is burned.

6. What kind of gun is Captain Kidd armed with while he reads in Chapter 1?
(a) A Smith and Wesson pistol.
(b) A Slocum revolver.
(c) A shotgun.
(d) A Henry rifle.

7. When did the Battle of Horseshoe Bend take place?
(a) 1814.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1862.

8. What ordeal does Doris say Johanna has been through?
(a) Two creations.
(b) Two deaths.
(c) An apocalypse.
(d) Death and rebirth.

9. What does Captain Kidd buy from Thurber, in addition to the newspapers?
(a) Letter writing paper.
(b) Books.
(c) Ink.
(d) Tobacco.

10. What Amendment to the constitution has just passed, when Captain Kidd starts reading to his audience?
(a) The 14th.
(b) The 16th.
(c) The 13th.
(d) The 15th.

11. Where are Captain Kidd’s daughters, as he writes to them from the Dallas hotel?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Louisiana.

12. What was Johanna traded for, when she was brought in?
(a) 15 blankets and some silverware.
(b) A Smith and Wesson pistol.
(c) A tin sheet stove.
(d) $50 gold coin.

13. How does the sign at Thurber’s print shop in Dallas describe the grounds of the office?
(a) Civilized land.
(b) No man’s land.
(c) Sacred ground.
(d) Wilderness.

14. What was Jefferson Kyle Kidd’s wife Maria Luisa Betancourt y Real doing when he first saw her?
(a) Running after the milk man.
(b) Shopping in the plaza.
(c) Riding in a carriage.
(d) Dancing at a ball.

15. What does Johanna yell to the Kiowa Indians across the river in Chapter 7?
(a) “Rescue me.”
(b) “Can you help me?”
(c) “Where is my mother?”
(d) “Run.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Jefferson Kyle Kidd’s men fighting at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?

2. Where does News of the World begin?

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

4. What sign language sign does Johanna make when Captain Kidd pulls the stove out of the wagon?

5. In Chapter 4, what does Johanna expect to have to do?

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