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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Johanna hear on the way out of Dallas, which seems like an omen?
(a) A great horned owl.
(b) A hawk.
(c) A bard owl.
(d) A raven.

4. What does Captain Kidd start off with, in his readings in Chapter 7?
(a) Human interest pieces.
(b) Curiosities and inventions.
(c) Hard news.
(d) Far-off news.

5. What does Johanna overturn, in her resistance to being washed?
(a) A desk.
(b) A small stove.
(c) The wash tub.
(d) An oil lamp.

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

7. Where does Captain Kidd give his reading in Spanish Fort in Chapter 6?
(a) Masonic lodge.
(b) Mercantile shop.
(c) Town hall.
(d) Grange hall.

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

9. What does Captain Kidd wish he had with him as he enters a wooded area on the road in Chapter 5?
(a) His daughters.
(b) A dog.
(c) Britt Johnson.
(d) His Slocum revolver.

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

11. What sign language sign does Johanna give Captain Kidd after the cavalry platoon has left in Chapter 5?
(a) “Thank you.”
(b) “Hungry.”
(c) “Free.”
(d) “Friend.”

12. In Chapter 4, what does Johanna expect to have to do?
(a) Submit to this new life.
(b) Kill her captors.
(c) Get revenge for her abduction.
(d) Starve herself to death.

13. What is Captain Kidd thinking about as he and Almay negotiate about Johanna?
(a) How much ammunition he has.
(b) Where to hide.
(c) How fast the Caddos can travel.
(d) Whether he can take refuge with friends.

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

15. Where did Jefferson Kyle Kidd grow up?
(a) Near the Mississippi River.
(b) Kentucky bluegrass country.
(c) Georgia hill country.
(d) Coastal Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Captain Kidd try to tell Johanna as the cavalry platoon rides up in Chapter 5?

3. Who wrestled Johanna out of her native clothes and into western dress?

4. What has Johanna made for supper, when Captain Kidd brings Simon and his girlfriend Doris Dillon back to the wagon from Spanish Fort?

5. By what light does Captain Kidd find Johanna in Chapter 7?

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