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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 is it that causes Johanna to start weeping about her future life?
(a) Captain Kidd tells her he will not need her to collect dimes at his talks any more.
(b) John Calley offers to save her.
(c) Mrs. Gannet tells her what kind of work she will have to do.
(d) Captain Kidd describes the house she will live in.

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. What is Captain Kidd’s plan if they were victim to raiders?
(a) Take cover in a steep canyon and wait for help.
(b) Fight it out with dimes in the shotgun.
(c) Bargain with the raiders.
(d) Abandon the wagon and make a run for it on Pasha.

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

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 hit by splintered rock.
(c) He bangs his head on the wagon.
(d) He is grazed. by a bullet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Johanna sing to herself, when she sits with Captain Kidd and her aunt and uncle in Chapter 20?

2. How does Captain Kidd sleep after the shootout at Carlyle Springs?

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

4. Which direction does Captain Kidd turn the Curative Waters wagon once he picks Johanna up again from her aunt and uncle's?

5. What does Captain Kidd surmise from the fact that Almay and the Caddos are coming up single file on one side of the ravine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of appearance do the Horrell brothers make before Captain Kidd and Johanna?

2. After the battle with Almay and the Caddos, what does Captain Kidd tell himself the meaning of life is?

3. What uproar does Johanna cause near the river with the stave mill, and how does she react when the uproar is settled?

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

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

6. How does Captain Kidd justify his refusal to read local news from Daily State Journal?

7. How do Captain Kidd and Johanna celebrate their victory over Almay and the Caddos?

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

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

10. How is Captain Kidd injured in his fight with Almay and Caddos, and how does his injury affect him?

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