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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. How does Captain Kidd sleep after the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
2. Why does Adolph the messenger say that Wilhelm and Anna will not likely adopt Johanna legally?
3. Where does Johanna take refuge, while she travels with the Captain into the hill country?
4. How does the Captain discern that the figures crossing the river are Kiowa?
5. What armament does Captain Kidd determine Almay and the Caddos are carrying in Chapter 11?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Captain Kidd reunite with Johanna, and how does she leave Anna and Wilhelm?
2. 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?
3. How does Captain Kidd justify his refusal to read local news from Daily State Journal?
4. How do Captain Kidd and Johanna celebrate their victory over Almay and the Caddos?
5. What is it that divides the crowd Captain Kidd reads to in the mercantile in Durand?
6. Why is Captain Kidd cautious about reading from the Inquirer?
7. What do the Horrell brothers consider they ought to be famous for?
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 do Almay and the Caddos approach Captain Kidd, and how does this work in Captain Kidd’s favor?
10. What kind of appearance do the Horrell brothers make before Captain Kidd and Johanna?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What topics would you like to research further, after reading News of the World. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on News of the World.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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