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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. Where do Captain Kidd and Johanna stay in Cranfills Gap?
(a) At a hotel.
(b) In a stable.
(c) At a campsite.
(d) Along the roadside.

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

3. How many men have brought guns to the Captain’s news reading in Durand?
(a) Six.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Nine.
(d) Three.

4. How does Captain Kidd refer to the Daily State Journal?
(a) Lies.
(b) Rumor.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Misinformed opinion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Captain Kidd say that he has to return Johanna to her relatives?

2. When Captain Kidd and Johanna encounter a patrol in the road to Durand, one of the men is Native American; what does Johanna say Native Americans look at, when evaluating a person?

3. How does Johanna injure one of the Caddos with Almay?

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

5. Who were the “two major combatants” in the fight that breaks out during Captain Kidd’s Durand reading?

Short Essay Questions

1. What danger do Captain Kidd and Johanna face in the hill country south of Lampasas?

2. What is it that divides the crowd Captain Kidd reads to in the mercantile in Durand?

3. Why does the sight of the chickens Johanna took from the stave mill make Captain Kidd cry?

4. Why is Captain Kidd cautious about reading from the Inquirer?

5. How does Johanna react to her return to family?

6. What does Captain Kidd do now that he has returned Johanna to her family?

7. Who helps Captain Kidd collect his dimes when the fight moves outside from the mercantile in Durand?

8. How does the narrator explain Johanna’s way of valuing things?

9. Who are the four men Captain Kidd and Johanna meet on the road to Lampasas, and what warning do they give Captain Kidd and Johanna?

10. How does the Curative Waters wagon’s tire become a symbol for Johanna’s arrival with her family, and departure from Captain Kidd’s life?

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