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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Quakers associated with, on the Texas frontier?
(a) The Peace Policy of Indian settlements.
(b) Negro suffrage.
(c) Reconstruction.
(d) Women’s suffrage.

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

3. How does Captain Kidd know that he and Johanna are under attack?
(a) The wagon rocks with bullets.
(b) The stove erupts with a bullet shot.
(c) The leaves overhead are torn by bullets.
(d) The dirt at their feet is kicked up by bullets.

4. What does Captain Kidd think should be done to people who are “born unsupplied with a human conscience” (110)?
(a) They should be deported.
(b) They should be re-educated.
(c) They should be quarantined.
(d) They should be killed.

5. What measure does Captain Kidd take, as they enter into the dangerous hill country?
(a) He loads the guns and keeps them across his lap.
(b) He rides ahead on the bay horse Pasha.
(c) He abandons the Curative Waters wagon.
(d) He mutes the iron wheels with leather.

6. What is the worst of the damage suffered by the Captain’s part, after the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
(a) Johanna’s injured hand.
(b) The wagon’s thrown tie rod.
(c) Pasha’s lame leg.
(d) His cut eye.

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

8. How many Horrell brothers are there?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

9. What does the narrator say are the raiders’ favorite targets?
(a) Government forts.
(b) Frontier towns.
(c) Isolated farms.
(d) Single travelers.

10. What is the state of Captain Kidd’s nerves after descending from the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
(a) Preternaturally calm.
(b) Sluggish and heavy.
(c) Super alert.
(d) Jumpy and distracted.

11. Who is the author of the quote Captain Kidd quotes to John Calley, that the laws should be publicized openly, and apply equally to king and peasant?
(a) Hammurabi.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) George Washington.

12. What is it about Pasha that keeps Captain Kidd from considering making a run for it, to escape from Almay and the Caddos?
(a) The heavy underbrush.
(b) Her lame leg.
(c) His bad back.
(d) Her twisted hoof.

13. What armament does Captain Kidd determine Almay and the Caddos are carrying in Chapter 11?
(a) One rifle and two handguns.
(b) Three handguns.
(c) Three rifles.
(d) Two rifles and a handgun.

14. Where does Johanna take refuge, while she travels with the Captain into the hill country?
(a) In the floorboards of the Curative Waters wagon.
(b) In the red wool jorongo, or serape.
(c) In the Captain’s bit hat.
(d) In the Captain’s jacket.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Captain Kidd say that he has to return Johanna to her relatives?

2. How does Johanna injure one of the Caddos with Almay?

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

4. How far off is Almay when Captain Kidd shoots him with the dimes?

5. Where do Captain Kidd and Johanna stay in Cranfills Gap?

(see the answer keys)

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