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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 have to prevent Johanna from doing, at the end of the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
(a) Pursuing and killing the Caddos.
(b) Spitting on Almay’s body.
(c) Dismembering Almay.
(d) Scalping Almay.

2. What is Captain Kidd thinking when he heads up to Carlyle Springs?
(a) Get under cover.
(b) Faster, faster.
(c) Seize the high ground.
(d) Don’t leave tracks.

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

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

5. Which direction does Captain Kidd turn the Curative Waters wagon once he picks Johanna up again from her aunt and uncle's?
(a) South.
(b) North.
(c) East.
(d) West.

6. What is it that draws Captain Kidd’s blood during the fire fight with Almay and the Caddos?
(a) He is grazed. by a bullet.
(b) He falls on thorns.
(c) He is hit by splintered rock.
(d) He bangs his head on the wagon.

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

8. What does Captain Kidd look for in the tight spirals of buzzards?
(a) Signs of game nearby.
(b) Signs of a dead body nearby.
(c) Signs of water.
(d) Signs of other travelers.

9. Where does John Calley go to collect the herds that make him a wealthy man?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Nueces strip.
(c) Hill country.
(d) Indian County.

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

11. How long ago did Captain Kidd’s wife die, that he came up these roads into North Texas?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

12. What smell does Captain Kidd remember as he and Johanna descend into the country around Resaca de la Palma?
(a) Festival smells of cooking.
(b) Gunpowder.
(c) Cannon smoke.
(d) Dead bodies.

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

14. When Captain Kidd and Johanna encounter the patrol in the road to Durand, how does Captain Kidd avoid answering the question put by the Captain, about who he voted for, for governor?
(a) He pretends not to have heard.
(b) He says he is offended.
(c) He says he was not in the state at the time.
(d) He claims not to speak English.

15. Who were the “two major combatants” in the fight that breaks out during Captain Kidd’s Durand reading?
(a) A soldier and a printer.
(b) A broom mill owner and a farmer.
(c) A hotel owner and a school teacher.
(d) A rancher and a farm hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Captain Kidd offer to park his wagon, and how much does he end up paying?

2. What is it about Pasha that keeps Captain Kidd from considering making a run for it, to escape from Almay and the Caddos?

3. 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?

4. What does Captain Kidd say his daughter Elizabeth will enjoy, once she comes to San Antonio from the East?

5. Who comes to eat out of the horses’ food as Captain Kidd and Johanna travel through the hill country?

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