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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say the Kiowa prided themselves on?
(a) Their ability to live without things.
(b) Their fierceness in battle.
(c) Their agricultural accomplishments.
(d) Their compliance with white men’s laws.

2. What does Captain Kidd see on Johanna’s face when he meets her?
(a) Panic.
(b) Dread.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Warmth.

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

4. Where does Johanna seek comfort in Chapter 4 when Captain Kidd settles in for the night?
(a) In a serape.
(b) On foot.
(c) In the footboards of the wagon.
(d) On horseback.

5. What is on the other side of the River from Captain Kidd and Johanna as they are making their way to Spanish Fort?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Indian Territory.

6. What is it that Captain Kidd is drawn to about Mrs. Gannet?
(a) Her laughter.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her smile.
(d) Her figure.

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

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

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

10. What does the Captain say he was nervous about, for the first two days with Johanna?
(a) That she would kill him.
(b) That she would be stolen.
(c) That someone would steal the $50 coin.
(d) That he would get lost.

11. What does Captain Kidd learn Johanna knows how to do, after the meeting with the cavalry in Chapter 5?
(a) Load the Smith and Wesson pistol.
(b) Take the safety off the Smith and Wesson pistol.
(c) Skin a rabbit.
(d) Handle a shotgun.

12. Why are two soldiers guarding the door at Captain Kidd’s reading in Dallas?
(a) Some people expect trouble at the reading.
(b) The soldiers are looking for a thief.
(c) Texas is still under military rule.
(d) There have been threats against the event.

13. 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 pay close attention.”
(c) “Then do it again.”
(d) “You already took the money.”

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

15. How much money does Captain Kidd make at the Dallas reading?
(a) $20.
(b) $30.
(c) $50.
(d) $40.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Captain Kidd’s feeling, in Chapter 6, about bringing Johanna back to civilization?

2. What does Captain Kidd buy from Thurber, in addition to the newspapers?

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

4. What does Mrs. Gannet offer Johanna in Chapter 9 to win her over?

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

(see the answer keys)

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