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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Johanna do when Captain Kidd locks her in the hotel room in Dallas?
(a) Rattle the window.
(b) Chant.
(c) Bang on the door.
(d) Sleep.

2. What effect does Mrs. Gannet’s anger about Almay’s proposal have on Captain Kidd?
(a) He is filled with protective rage.
(b) He is smitten.
(c) He is unmanned.
(d) He is impatient with her histrionics.

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

4. Who wrestled Johanna out of her native clothes and into western dress?
(a) Church women.
(b) Mrs. Gannet.
(c) Prostitutes.
(d) Captain Kidd.

5. What kind of tone does Captain Kidd take with Thurber, the printer?
(a) Cajoling.
(b) Insulting.
(c) Conciliatory.
(d) Snappish.

6. When was Captain Kidd born?
(a) 1786.
(b) 1814.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1800.

7. What is Simon Boudlin’s profession?
(a) Printer.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Fiddler.

8. What sign language sign does Johanna make when Captain Kidd pulls the stove out of the wagon?
(a) Eat.
(b) Fire.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Matches.

9. How does Captain Kidd finish Simon’s sentence when Simon says “you have taken on a heavy load” (54)?
(a) “But you’re strong enough for this.”
(b) “And I don’t think you can carry it.”
(c) “You’re a good man.”
(d) “For an old man, you mean.”

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

11. What direction will Captain Kidd be traveling with Johanna?
(a) West.
(b) South.
(c) East.
(d) North.

12. Whose voice does Captain Kidd say this celestial voice in Chapter 8 resembles?
(a) His own childhood self’s.
(b) His father’s.
(c) His general’s.
(d) Britt Johnson’s.

13. How far is Captain Kidd planning to travel with Johanna, as they set out in Chapter 2?
(a) 400 miles.
(b) 600 miles.
(c) 1,000 miles.
(d) 800 miles.

14. What does Captain Kidd do before he falls asleep at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Prays.
(b) Drinks whiskey.
(c) Smokes.
(d) Sings.

15. What does the other, “celestial” voice inside Captain Kidd answer, when he worries about the girl (74)?
(a) “Then pay close attention.”
(b) “Well you can’t go back on your word.”
(c) “Then do it again.”
(d) “You already took the money.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Jefferson Kyle Kidd’s wife Maria Luisa Betancourt y Real doing when he first saw her?

2. What does Johanna overturn, in her resistance to being washed?

3. Why does the desk clerk in the Dallas hotel speak so dramatically?

4. Why does Captain Kidd decline Doris’ offer to leave Johanna with her and Simon?

5. When does News of the World begin?

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