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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What danger awaits Captain Kidd and Johanna in the hill country?
(a) Lack of water or provisions.
(b) Possible raiders.
(c) Feuding families.
(d) Breakdowns from rough terrain.

2. What do the Horrell brothers say is their claim to fame?
(a) Running huge herds of cattle.
(b) Killing buffalo.
(c) Instituting the law.
(d) Killing Mexicans.

3. What does Captain Kidd say his daughter Elizabeth will enjoy, once she comes to San Antonio from the East?
(a) Raising her kids in a city.
(b) Tutoring Johanna.
(c) Setting up a new printing shop for him.
(d) Clearing the title to the family land.

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

5. What is the best word to describe the act Adolph performs by saying that Captain Kidd cannot leave Johanna with her aunt and uncle?
(a) Beg.
(b) Command.
(c) Order.
(d) Implore.

6. Who guards Captain Kidd and Johanna through the night outside of Lampasas?
(a) The Horrell brothers.
(b) John Calley.
(c) Simon Boudlin.
(d) The cowboys they met in the road.

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

8. What does Johanna sing to herself, when she sits with Captain Kidd and her aunt and uncle in Chapter 20?
(a) A curse on her tormentors.
(b) A war song.
(c) A Kiowa song calling for help.
(d) A death song.

9. How does Captain Kidd characterize the act of delivering Johanna over to her relatives, after the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
(a) Bringing her home.
(b) Abandoning her to them.
(c) Losing her to them.
(d) Handing her over.

10. What had Captain Kidd been doing when he met his wife?
(a) Setting up his print shop.
(b) Returningfrom war.
(c) Preparing to move to Texas.
(d) Healing from injuries he got in war.

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

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

13. What does Captain Kidd surmise from the fact that Almay and the Caddos are coming up single file on one side of the ravine?
(a) That they underestimate his defenses.
(b) That they are in a hurry.
(c) That they are overconfident.
(d) That they are young.

14. How far are Captain Kidd and Johanna from the Brazos River when they pull off for Carlyle Springs at daybreak after leaving Dallas?
(a) Half a mile.
(b) One mile.
(c) Fifteen miles.
(d) Ten miles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Captain Kidd know that he and Johanna are under attack?

2. Why does Adolph the messenger say that Wilhelm and Anna will not likely adopt Johanna legally?

3. What armament does Captain Kidd determine Almay and the Caddos are carrying in Chapter 11?

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

5. Who do the Horrell brothers say might object to their methods of instituting law and order?

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