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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 the U.S. Army Sergeant do, when the people of Durand start to fight during Captain Kidd’s reading?
(a) Calls for backup.
(b) Intervenes in the fights.
(c) Withdraws.
(d) Watches without doing anything.

2. How do Captain Kidd and Johanna cross at the Brazos ferry?
(a) They are carried across on a raft.
(b) They swim across.
(c) They are pulled across on wires.
(d) They are poled across on a boat.

3. What does Captain Kidd look for in the tight spirals of buzzards?
(a) Signs of a dead body nearby.
(b) Signs of water.
(c) Signs of game nearby.
(d) Signs of other travelers.

4. What does Johanna think about while the outraged woman scolds her about “modesty while bathing” (139)?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Captain Kidd’s desire for her to be clean.
(c) Her Kiowa friends.
(d) Her childhood before captivity.

5. How does Captain Kidd characterize the white man’s world he wants to protect Johanna in?
(a) Cross-grained and contentious.
(b) Side-ways and inside-out.
(c) Upside-down and topsy-turvy.
(d) Mechanized and cruel.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What does the narrator say about Johanna’s reintegration into American culture?

4. How does Captain Kidd surprise the Mexican women washing clothes in Alazan Creek in San Antonio?

5. What are Quakers associated with, on the Texas frontier?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Captain Kidd tell us about other returned captives, and what are his apprehensions about Johanna?

3. What is Captain Kidd’s first impression of Johanna’s aunt and uncle, Wilhelm and Anna Leonberger?

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

5. How does Captain Kidd reunite with Johanna, and how does she leave Anna and Wilhelm?

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

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

8. What is Captain Kidd nervous about now that the Almay and the Caddos have been defeated?

9. How do Captain Kidd and Johanna turn the tides of the battle Carlyle Springs?

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

(see the answer keys)

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