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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Captain Kidd buy from Thurber, in addition to the newspapers?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Ink.
(c) Books.
(d) Letter writing paper.

2. What does the narrator say the Kiowa prided themselves on?
(a) Their ability to live without things.
(b) Their compliance with white men’s laws.
(c) Their fierceness in battle.
(d) Their agricultural accomplishments.

3. What happens to Johanna’s native clothing?
(a) It is donated to a museum.
(b) It is thrown out a window.
(c) It is burned.
(d) She saves it in her pack.

4. Whose voice does Captain Kidd say this celestial voice in Chapter 8 resembles?
(a) His father’s.
(b) His own childhood self’s.
(c) His general’s.
(d) Britt Johnson’s.

5. Why are two soldiers guarding the door at Captain Kidd’s reading in Dallas?
(a) Texas is still under military rule.
(b) The soldiers are looking for a thief.
(c) Some people expect trouble at the reading.
(d) There have been threats against the event.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Captain Kidd characterize white people’s faces?

2. Where does News of the World begin?

3. How does Captain Kidd finish Simon’s sentence when Simon says “you have taken on a heavy load” (54)?

4. What kind of gun is Captain Kidd armed with while he reads in Chapter 1?

5. How does the sign at Thurber’s print shop in Dallas describe the grounds of the office?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Captain Kidd like about the message corps?

2. Who is Almay and what proposition does he make to Captain Kidd?

3. How does Captain Kidd get Johanna out of her Kiowa dress and into western clothes?

4. How does Captain Kidd settle his own doubts about whether he can take care of Johanna?

5. What does Britt Johnson give Captain Kidd when he is about to leave from Wichita Falls?

6. What kind of wagon does Captain Kidd buy, to take Johanna back to Castroville in?

7. What is Captain Kidd’s approach to reading local news?

8. Why does the narrator say that there is no Kiowa word for thank you?

9. Why is Johanna nervous when they encounter the army on the road in Chapter 5, and how does Captain Kidd take care of her?

10. How does Mrs. Gannet fare, taking care of Johanna in the hotel room?

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