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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Captain Kidd have to prevent Johanna from doing, at the end of the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
2. What topic does Captain Kidd avoid reading about in Durand, in addition to local Texas politics?
3. How does Captain Kidd know that he and Johanna are under attack?
4. How does Captain Kidd surprise the Mexican women washing clothes in Alazan Creek in San Antonio?
5. Where did the Indian Wars against the Kiowa end?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the sight of the chickens Johanna took from the stave mill make Captain Kidd cry?
2. How does Johanna save Captain Kidd’s life when they are passing through the hill country to Fredericksburg?
3. Why is Captain Kidd cautious about reading from the Inquirer?
4. What disadvantages is Captain Kidd under, as he conducts this fire fight with Almay and the Caddos?
5. What is Captain Kidd nervous about now that the Almay and the Caddos have been defeated?
6. How is Captain Kidd injured in his fight with Almay and Caddos, and how does his injury affect him?
7. What does Captain Kidd do now that he has returned Johanna to her family?
8. How do Almay and the Caddos approach Captain Kidd, and how does this work in Captain Kidd’s favor?
9. Where does Captain Kidd take shelter in his flight from Almay?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When is News of the World most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 2
Research the history of returned captives in the American frontier, from Massachusetts and Maine to the west. What are the biggest difficulties returned captives encounter, and how does Jiles represent that experience in News of the World? Does she paint a fair portrait of this difficult transition?
Essay Topic 3
The frontier has always been attractive to Americans as a place where each person gets to make their own law, and there is not a single law or cultural authority. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the lawlessness of the frontier in News of the World? Who benefits by it, and who loses? What will it take for the frontier culture to transition to the culture Captain Kidd cites from Hammurabi, where the law is the same for king and peasant alike?
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