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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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 Captain’s bit hat.
(d) In the floorboards of the Curative Waters wagon.

6. How do Captain Kidd and Johanna cross at the Brazos ferry?
(a) They are carried across on a raft.
(b) They are pulled across on wires.
(c) They are poled across on a boat.
(d) They swim across.

7. How does Captain Kidd refer to the Daily State Journal?
(a) Rumor.
(b) Misinformed opinion.
(c) Lies.
(d) Propaganda.

8. What does the narrator say Almay’s face looked like it had been printed with in Chapter 12?
(a) Question marks.
(b) Quotation marks.
(c) Hyphens.
(d) Periods.

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

10. What does Captain Kidd prepare for, as a contingency plan, after leaving the road up to Carlyle Springs?
(a) Dying in the shoot out.
(b) Riding through the open country.
(c) Running on foot.
(d) Abandoning the wagon.

11. What does John Calley apologize to Captain Kidd for, as he helps him collect the dimes that were spilled by the fighting during Captain Kidd’s Durand reading?
(a) Overcharging him for supplies.
(b) The rudeness of his townsmen.
(c) Turning him away from his hotel.
(d) Taking money from him on the road.

12. Why does Captain Kidd say that he has to return Johanna to her relatives?
(a) Because he is only responsible for himself and his own people.
(b) Because cruelty is the law of the country and he cannot change that.
(c) Because he took money and it would be robbery if he did not.
(d) Because he was only doing a job, and her welfare is not his job any longer.

13. What does the narrator say about Johanna’s reintegration into American culture?
(a) She was part American, part Kiowa.
(b) She remained a Kiowa all her days.
(c) She became an America through and through.
(d) She became her own person, neither American nor Kiowa.

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

15. What is Captain Kidd concerned with, as he descends from Carlyle Springs?
(a) His bleeding wound.
(b) The iron wheel on the wagon.
(c) The brakes on the wagon.
(d) Fancy’s shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What danger awaits Captain Kidd and Johanna in the hill country?

2. 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?

3. What does Captain Kidd think about doing, as a last ditch measure, to keep Almay from taking Johanna?

4. When do Captain Kidd and Johanna leave Lampasas?

5. What does Johanna call Captain Kidd when he is about to give her away in marriage?

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