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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Captain Kidd say we are supposed to do with the message we carry through life?
(a) Hand it over, unsealed, at the end.
(b) Find the destination to take it to.
(c) Read it and understand it.
(d) Understand it and spread it.

2. What does Captain Kidd say about other people’s cultures, when he cannot tell whether to give Johanna a kiss on the cheek?
(a) That they are minefields.
(b) That they require initiation.
(c) That they are secret.
(d) That they are inscrutable books.

3. In Chapter 15, what does Captain Kidd say people always want to hear from travelers?
(a) What the crops are like in other towns.
(b) Whether there will be another war.
(c) The condition of the roads.
(d) The state of the economy in other counties.

4. What does Johanna think about while the outraged woman scolds her about “modesty while bathing” (139)?
(a) Captain Kidd’s desire for her to be clean.
(b) Her Kiowa friends.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her childhood before captivity.

5. What is it that causes Johanna to start weeping about her future life?
(a) Mrs. Gannet tells her what kind of work she will have to do.
(b) John Calley offers to save her.
(c) Captain Kidd describes the house she will live in.
(d) Captain Kidd tells her he will not need her to collect dimes at his talks any more.

6. Why does Adolph, the messenger who carried news of Captain Kidd’s arrival to Wilhelm and Anna’s house, tell Captain Kidd that Wilhelm and Anna’s nephew ran off?
(a) Because he wanted to start his own farm.
(b) Because they worked him like a Turk.
(c) Because he wanted to join the army.
(d) Because he wanted to go to sea.

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

8. Where do Captain Kidd and Johanna stay in Cranfills Gap?
(a) At a campsite.
(b) At a hotel.
(c) In a stable.
(d) Along the roadside.

9. Where did Captain Kidd’s wife’s people come to America from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Canary Islands.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Spain.

10. What does the narrator say the Kiowa valued about life?
(a) Courage.
(b) Status.
(c) Religion.
(d) Power.

11. How does Captain Kidd sleep after the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
(a) Peacefully, without war nightmares.
(b) Restlessly, on edge about the Caddos.
(c) Fitfully, as they forge ahead on the road.
(d) Badly, tormented by old nightmares.

12. What topic does Captain Kidd avoid reading about in Durand, in addition to local Texas politics?
(a) Flooding in Pennsylvania.
(b) Flood levels in Texas rivers.
(c) Census in India.
(d) Negro suffrage.

13. How does Captain Kidd characterize the white man’s world he wants to protect Johanna in?
(a) Upside-down and topsy-turvy.
(b) Side-ways and inside-out.
(c) Cross-grained and contentious.
(d) Mechanized and cruel.

14. What does the narrator say Captain Kidd did at each place he read the news?
(a) Arrested time.
(b) Spread peace.
(c) Enriched people.
(d) Enriched time.

15. What does Captain Kidd think Merrit Horrell’s hair looks like it has been combed with?
(a) A broom.
(b) A rake.
(c) An iron skillet.
(d) A pistol.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men have brought guns to the Captain’s news reading in Durand?

2. What does the narrator say Almay’s face looked like it had been printed with in Chapter 12?

3. How far is one of the Caddos, when Captain Kidd realizes that Johanna is suggesting he pack the shotgun shells with dimes?

4. What dance does Johanna do in the wagon, as she and Captain Kidd make their way south from Cranfills Gap?

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

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