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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Captain Kidd make arrangements to read the news in Durand?
(a) In a field.
(b) In the grange hall.
(c) In a Masons hall.
(d) In a mercantile.

2. What does Captain Kidd say he will do if anyone objects to his taking Johanna back with him?
(a) Leave for the frontier.
(b) Beat them silly.
(c) Shoot them with dimes.
(d) Force them to make a legal claim.

3. What dance does Johanna do in the wagon, as she and Captain Kidd make their way south from Cranfills Gap?
(a) Cicada dance.
(b) Sun dance.
(c) Grass dance.
(d) Rabbit Dance.

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

5. Who do the Horrell brothers say might object to their methods of instituting law and order?
(a) The army.
(b) Captain Kidd.
(c) The governor.
(d) Hamilton’s men.

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

7. What does Johanna call Captain Kidd when he is about to give her away in marriage?
(a) Her faithful messenger.
(b) Her curative waters.
(c) Her only family member.
(d) Her savior.

8. 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.

9. Where does Captain Kidd say are the only places his news readings are popular?
(a) Near the frontier.
(b) Near the coast.
(c) Near the forts.
(d) In the big cities.

10. 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 they worked him like a Turk.
(b) Because he wanted to start his own farm.
(c) Because he wanted to go to sea.
(d) Because he wanted to join the army.

11. What do the people argue about, when they disrupt Captain Kidd’s reading in Durand?
(a) The end of military rule in Texas.
(b) The state of the economy.
(c) Governor Davis’ corruption.
(d) The importance of the Civil War.

12. Where does Johanna say she would like to return to?
(a) Wichita Falls.
(b) Indian country.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Spanish Fort.

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

14. What does Johanna do when the Captain stops at Carlyle Springs?
(a) Hide the wagon with brush.
(b) Cook breakfast.
(c) Lead the horses further from the road.
(d) Load the guns.

15. What does Captain Kidd visit in the Plaza de Armas in San Antonio?
(a) His wife’s family’s offices.
(b) His barracks from his time in the army.
(c) His old printing shop.
(d) His old house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Kidd say we are supposed to do with the message we carry through life?

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

3. In Chapter 20, what does Wilhelm say Johanna must learn again?

4. What does Captain Kidd think should be done to people who are “born unsupplied with a human conscience” (110)?

5. In Chapter 15, what does Captain Kidd say people always want to hear from travelers?

(see the answer keys)

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