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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. Where do Captain Kidd and Johanna stay in Cranfills Gap?
2. Who do the Horrell brothers say might object to their methods of instituting law and order?
3. Which direction does Captain Kidd turn the Curative Waters wagon once he picks Johanna up again from her aunt and uncle's?
4. What armament does Captain Kidd determine Almay and the Caddos are carrying in Chapter 11?
5. What had Captain Kidd been doing when he met his wife?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Captain Kidd and Johanna turn the tides of the battle Carlyle Springs?
2. What is it that divides the crowd Captain Kidd reads to in the mercantile in Durand?
3. What danger do Captain Kidd and Johanna face in the hill country south of Lampasas?
4. What does Captain Kidd tell us about other returned captives, and what are his apprehensions about Johanna?
5. After the battle with Almay and the Caddos, what does Captain Kidd tell himself the meaning of life is?
6. What do the Horrell brothers consider they ought to be famous for?
7. What uproar does Johanna cause near the river with the stave mill, and how does she react when the uproar is settled?
8. What does Captain Kidd do now that he has returned Johanna to her family?
9. Why does the sight of the chickens Johanna took from the stave mill make Captain Kidd cry?
10. How does the narrator explain Johanna’s way of valuing things?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered? How does the book regulate the tension between tense periods and climaxes?
Essay Topic 2
Time and again, Captain Kidd says that he just delivers the news, without knowing what he is delivering, although he also develops a strong bond with Johanna, which is centered on an unarticulated sympathy, affection and understanding between them. Are we, then, meant to take the final line of the novel, “He had a message to deliver, contents unknown” (209) as a summary of the book’s meaning—or is News of the World really a prescription for how to care for people, how to protect yourself and your people, and how to fill your life with the explicit meaning that comes from such acts?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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