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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 think Merrit Horrell’s hair looks like it has been combed with?
(a) A rake.
(b) An iron skillet.
(c) A broom.
(d) A pistol.

2. What does Captain Kidd think about doing, as a last ditch measure, to keep Almay from taking Johanna?
(a) Burning the woods.
(b) Killing her.
(c) Hiding her in a cave.
(d) Going on a suicide mission to buy her time to flee.

3. What danger awaits Captain Kidd and Johanna in the hill country?
(a) Lack of water or provisions.
(b) Feuding families.
(c) Possible raiders.
(d) Breakdowns from rough terrain.

4. In Chapter 20, what does Wilhelm say Johanna must learn again?
(a) Numbers.
(b) To pray.
(c) English.
(d) To work.

5. What is the worst of the damage suffered by the Captain’s part, after the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
(a) His cut eye.
(b) Pasha’s lame leg.
(c) Johanna’s injured hand.
(d) The wagon’s thrown tie rod.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Kidd notice about the Durand crowd, out of the corner of his eye?

2. What does the narrator say the Kiowa valued about life?

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

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

5. Why does Adolph, the messenger who carried news of Captain Kidd’s arrival to Wilhelm and Anna’s house, tell Captain Kidd that Wilhelm and Anna’s nephew ran off?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do the Horrell brothers consider they ought to be famous for?

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 the novel speed up after the fight in Durand?

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

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