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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Her lame leg.
(d) The heavy underbrush.

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Captain Kidd characterize the white man’s world he wants to protect Johanna in?
(a) Mechanized and cruel.
(b) Side-ways and inside-out.
(c) Cross-grained and contentious.
(d) Upside-down and topsy-turvy.

10. 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.

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

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

13. How far is one of the Caddos, when Captain Kidd realizes that Johanna is suggesting he pack the shotgun shells with dimes?
(a) 200 yards.
(b) 150 yards.
(c) 100 yards.
(d) 50 yards.

14. How are the Horrell brothers attired?
(a) In uniforms from either side from the war.
(b) In a hodge-podge of cast-off clothing.
(c) In Confederate army uniforms.
(d) In farmers’ clothes.

15. What does Captain Kidd give the old lady he and Johanna meet, in a gig, riding back toward Durand?
(a) Money to pay for the chickens Johanna took.
(b) A letter for her to post.
(c) Dimes for John Calley.
(d) A letter for the mill owner they stayed with.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Captain Kidd park the Curative Waters wagon when he reaches Durand?

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

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

5. What does Captain Kidd prepare for, as a contingency plan, after leaving the road up to Carlyle Springs?

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