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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 dance does Johanna do in the wagon, as she and Captain Kidd make their way south from Cranfills Gap?
2. Where does Captain Kidd think the Horrell brothers’ mother must be?
3. What does Captain Kidd think about doing, as a last ditch measure, to keep Almay from taking Johanna?
4. What does the narrator say Captain Kidd did at each place he read the news?
5. What does Captain Kidd prepare for, as a contingency plan, after leaving the road up to Carlyle Springs?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is it that divides the crowd Captain Kidd reads to in the mercantile in Durand?
2. What disadvantages is Captain Kidd under, as he conducts this fire fight with Almay and the Caddos?
3. What does Captain Kidd tell us about other returned captives, and what are his apprehensions about Johanna?
4. What do the Horrell brothers consider they ought to be famous for?
5. What kind of appearance do the Horrell brothers make before Captain Kidd and Johanna?
6. How do Wilhelm and Anna expect to bring Johanna back into the routine of civilized life?
7. Where does Captain Kidd take shelter in his flight from Almay?
8. Why does the sight of the chickens Johanna took from the stave mill make Captain Kidd cry?
9. Why is Captain Kidd cautious about reading from the Inquirer?
10. What danger do Captain Kidd and Johanna face in the hill country south of Lampasas?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Identify the most important plot points in News of the World. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
Essay Topic 2
For Captain Kidd, the frontier is the outer edge of civilization, but from San Antonio and Houston, the modern world was much closer by. What changes were taking place in the outer borders of Captain Kidd’s world, and how would those changes affect life in the towns and cities where News of the World takes place? What were the dominant tensions in that modern world, and how do you think the main characters would adapt to those new tensions?
Essay Topic 3
The cultural territory between Native American and white Americans has always been both tense, in a military sense, and fertile, in a cultural sense, as Native Americans have occupied a symbolic place in America’s sense of its identity as a country. How does Paulette Jiles locate her historical novel in that longer history? Is she prone to romanticizing Native Americans, or does she depict Native American culture in realistic and nuanced terms?
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