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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say are the raiders’ favorite targets?
(a) Frontier towns.
(b) Single travelers.
(c) Government forts.
(d) Isolated farms.

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

3. How many Horrell brothers are there?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Adolph the messenger say that Wilhelm and Anna will not likely adopt Johanna legally?
(a) They cannot afford the legal filing fees.
(b) They want to give her a trial period first.
(c) They intend to marry her off as soon as possible.
(d) They would be responsible for providing a dowry.

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

11. What does Johanna think about while the outraged woman scolds her about “modesty while bathing” (139)?
(a) Captain Kidd’s desire for her to be clean.
(b) Her Kiowa friends.
(c) Her childhood before captivity.
(d) Her mother.

12. How far off is Almay when Captain Kidd shoots him with the dimes?
(a) 20 yards.
(b) 100 yards.
(c) 200 yards.
(d) 50 yards.

13. What does Captain Kidd think about doing, as a last ditch measure, to keep Almay from taking Johanna?
(a) Burning the woods.
(b) Going on a suicide mission to buy her time to flee.
(c) Killing her.
(d) Hiding her in a cave.

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

15. Where does Johanna sleep, for her first night back with her aunt and uncle?
(a) On a plank.
(b) In the Curative Waters wagon.
(c) In a bed.
(d) On the floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Captain Kidd surprise the Mexican women washing clothes in Alazan Creek in San Antonio?

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. 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?

4. What does the narrator say Captain Kidd did at each place he read the news?

5. Where did Captain Kidd’s wife’s people come to America from?

(see the answer keys)

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