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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. Who were the “two major combatants” in the fight that breaks out during Captain Kidd’s Durand reading?
(a) A soldier and a printer.
(b) A hotel owner and a school teacher.
(c) A broom mill owner and a farmer.
(d) A rancher and a farm hand.

2. What does Captain Kidd give the old lady he and Johanna meet, in a gig, riding back toward Durand?
(a) A letter for the mill owner they stayed with.
(b) A letter for her to post.
(c) Dimes for John Calley.
(d) Money to pay for the chickens Johanna took.

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

4. Where did Captain Kidd’s wife’s people come to America from?
(a) Canary Islands.
(b) Germany.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Spain.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Captain Kidd have to prevent Johanna from doing, at the end of the shootout at Carlyle Springs?

3. Who comes to eat out of the horses’ food as Captain Kidd and Johanna travel through the hill country?

4. Where does Johanna say she would like to return to?

5. What does Captain Kidd look for in the tight spirals of buzzards?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does the Curative Waters wagon’s tire become a symbol for Johanna’s arrival with her family, and departure from Captain Kidd’s life?

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

10. Why is Captain Kidd cautious about reading from the Inquirer?

(see the answer keys)

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