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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 is it that causes Johanna to start weeping about her future life?
2. What is Captain Kidd concerned with, as he descends from Carlyle Springs?
3. How long ago did Captain Kidd’s wife die, that he came up these roads into North Texas?
4. What does Captain Kidd say his daughter Elizabeth will enjoy, once she comes to San Antonio from the East?
5. When Captain Kidd and Johanna encounter a patrol in the road to Durand, one of the men is Native American; what does Johanna say Native Americans look at, when evaluating a person?
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 does Captain Kidd dream, after leaving Durand, and how do his dreams connect him to Johanna?
3. How does Johanna react to her return to family?
4. What do the Horrell brothers consider they ought to be famous for?
5. 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?
6. What is Captain Kidd’s first impression of Johanna’s aunt and uncle, Wilhelm and Anna Leonberger?
7. How do Captain Kidd and Johanna turn the tides of the battle Carlyle Springs?
8. What kind of appearance do the Horrell brothers make before Captain Kidd and Johanna?
9. Why does the sight of the chickens Johanna took from the stave mill make Captain Kidd cry?
10. Why is Captain Kidd cautious about reading from the Inquirer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the history of the American frontier, it was not so common for captives to be returned from the Native American tribes to the towns. It was much more common for whites to take Native Americans from their families and install them in residential schools where they were forced to forget their Native culture and language. How does Jiles’ novel act as a kind of connection with, and apology for, this other history, which is only touched tangentially? What emotions does Johanna’s story evoke, that are also connected to that other story?
Essay Topic 2
Paulette Jiles spends a good deal of time describing the details of people’s armament, distinguishing between types of rifles and handguns. Why are these details of manufacture important to the characters, and how does Jiles’ close descriptions of them affect the mood and tone of the narrative? What else does Jiles describe with similar attention to details of manufacture, and how do those descriptions affect the tone of the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
What is the role of women in News of the World? How is the difference between men’s worlds and women’s worlds described? How does that definition change according to geography or frontier? What kind of woman will Johanna grow up to be?
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