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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 say his daughter Elizabeth will enjoy, once she comes to San Antonio from the East?
(a) Raising her kids in a city.
(b) Setting up a new printing shop for him.
(c) Clearing the title to the family land.
(d) Tutoring Johanna.

2. What had Captain Kidd been doing when he met his wife?
(a) Healing from injuries he got in war.
(b) Returningfrom war.
(c) Preparing to move to Texas.
(d) Setting up his print shop.

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

4. 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 lame leg.
(b) The heavy underbrush.
(c) His bad back.
(d) Her twisted hoof.

5. What topic does Captain Kidd avoid reading about in Durand, in addition to local Texas politics?
(a) Flood levels in Texas rivers.
(b) Negro suffrage.
(c) Flooding in Pennsylvania.
(d) Census in India.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the worst of the damage suffered by the Captain’s part, after the shootout at Carlyle Springs?

2. How far is one of the Caddos, when Captain Kidd realizes that Johanna is suggesting he pack the shotgun shells with dimes?

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

4. What does Captain Kidd say we are supposed to do with the message we carry through life?

5. Who guards Captain Kidd and Johanna through the night outside of Lampasas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Captain Kidd dream, after leaving Durand, and how do his dreams connect him to Johanna?

2. 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?

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

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

5. How does Johanna save Captain Kidd’s life when they are passing through the hill country to Fredericksburg?

6. How do Almay and the Caddos approach Captain Kidd, and how does this work in Captain Kidd’s favor?

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

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

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

10. How does the novel speed up after the fight in Durand?

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