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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. How does the Captain discern that the figures crossing the river are Kiowa?
(a) By their hair.
(b) By their sign language.
(c) By their vocabulary.
(d) By their dress.

2. What smell does Captain Kidd remember as he and Johanna descend into the country around Resaca de la Palma?
(a) Festival smells of cooking.
(b) Gunpowder.
(c) Dead bodies.
(d) Cannon smoke.

3. How does Captain Kidd characterize the act of delivering Johanna over to her relatives, after the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
(a) Abandoning her to them.
(b) Handing her over.
(c) Losing her to them.
(d) Bringing her home.

4. 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) Load the guns.
(d) Cook breakfast.

5. What are Quakers associated with, on the Texas frontier?
(a) Negro suffrage.
(b) Reconstruction.
(c) Women’s suffrage.
(d) The Peace Policy of Indian settlements.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men have brought guns to the Captain’s news reading in Durand?

2. Where does Johanna sleep, for her first night back with her aunt and uncle?

3. What armament does Captain Kidd determine Almay and the Caddos are carrying in Chapter 11?

4. How long ago did Captain Kidd’s wife die, that he came up these roads into North Texas?

5. Who do the Horrell brothers say might object to their methods of instituting law and order?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where does Captain Kidd take shelter in his flight from Almay?

4. How do Wilhelm and Anna expect to bring Johanna back into the routine of civilized life?

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

6. What is the conversation that passes between Captain Kidd and Johanna on Johanna’s wedding day?

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

8. What disadvantages is Captain Kidd under, as he conducts this fire fight with Almay and the Caddos?

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

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

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