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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) Mrs. Gannet tells her what kind of work she will have to do.
(b) John Calley offers to save her.
(c) Captain Kidd tells her he will not need her to collect dimes at his talks any more.
(d) Captain Kidd describes the house she will live in.

2. What armament does Captain Kidd determine Almay and the Caddos are carrying in Chapter 11?
(a) One rifle and two handguns.
(b) Three handguns.
(c) Two rifles and a handgun.
(d) Three rifles.

3. 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.

4. How does Johanna injure one of the Caddos with Almay?
(a) She throws a stone at him.
(b) She scalds him with water from the kettle.
(c) She rolls a boulder down the ravine.
(d) She stabs him with a knife.

5. How far off is Almay when Captain Kidd shoots him with the dimes?
(a) 200 yards.
(b) 50 yards.
(c) 100 yards.
(d) 20 yards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Kidd visit in the Plaza de Armas in San Antonio?

2. When do Captain Kidd and Johanna leave Lampasas?

3. What does the narrator say Captain Kidd did at each place he read the news?

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

5. In Chapter 20, what does Wilhelm say Johanna must learn again?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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