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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Johanna call Captain Kidd when he is about to give her away in marriage?
(a) Her curative waters.
(b) Her only family member.
(c) Her faithful messenger.
(d) Her savior.

2. What does Captain Kidd look for in the tight spirals of buzzards?
(a) Signs of a dead body nearby.
(b) Signs of water.
(c) Signs of other travelers.
(d) Signs of game nearby.

3. Which direction does Captain Kidd turn the Curative Waters wagon once he picks Johanna up again from her aunt and uncle's?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) West.

4. What does Captain Kidd say he will do if anyone objects to his taking Johanna back with him?
(a) Leave for the frontier.
(b) Beat them silly.
(c) Shoot them with dimes.
(d) Force them to make a legal claim.

5. How does Captain Kidd sleep after the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
(a) Fitfully, as they forge ahead on the road.
(b) Peacefully, without war nightmares.
(c) Restlessly, on edge about the Caddos.
(d) Badly, tormented by old nightmares.

6. What does Captain Kidd say about other people’s cultures, when he cannot tell whether to give Johanna a kiss on the cheek?
(a) That they require initiation.
(b) That they are inscrutable books.
(c) That they are minefields.
(d) That they are secret.

7. Who comes to eat out of the horses’ food as Captain Kidd and Johanna travel through the hill country?
(a) A ring-tail cat.
(b) A jackrabbit.
(c) An armadillo.
(d) A raccoon.

8. What is Captain Kidd concerned with, as he descends from Carlyle Springs?
(a) The brakes on the wagon.
(b) The iron wheel on the wagon.
(c) His bleeding wound.
(d) Fancy’s shoes.

9. What does Johanna sing to herself, when she sits with Captain Kidd and her aunt and uncle in Chapter 20?
(a) A curse on her tormentors.
(b) A death song.
(c) A Kiowa song calling for help.
(d) A war song.

10. What does Captain Kidd say we are supposed to do with the message we carry through life?
(a) Find the destination to take it to.
(b) Understand it and spread it.
(c) Hand it over, unsealed, at the end.
(d) Read it and understand it.

11. What does the narrator say the Kiowa valued about life?
(a) Power.
(b) Status.
(c) Courage.
(d) Religion.

12. Who were the “two major combatants” in the fight that breaks out during Captain Kidd’s Durand reading?
(a) A soldier and a printer.
(b) A broom mill owner and a farmer.
(c) A rancher and a farm hand.
(d) A hotel owner and a school teacher.

13. What does Captain Kidd think Merrit Horrell’s hair looks like it has been combed with?
(a) A pistol.
(b) A rake.
(c) An iron skillet.
(d) A broom.

14. How are the Horrell brothers attired?
(a) In a hodge-podge of cast-off clothing.
(b) In Confederate army uniforms.
(c) In uniforms from either side from the war.
(d) In farmers’ clothes.

15. What is the best word to describe the act Adolph performs by saying that Captain Kidd cannot leave Johanna with her aunt and uncle?
(a) Order.
(b) Command.
(c) Implore.
(d) Beg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Captain Kidd park the Curative Waters wagon when he reaches Durand?

2. How does Captain Kidd characterize the white man’s world he wants to protect Johanna in?

3. What is the state of Captain Kidd’s nerves after descending from the shootout at Carlyle Springs?

4. What is it that draws Captain Kidd’s blood during the fire fight with Almay and the Caddos?

5. Where does John Calley go to collect the herds that make him a wealthy man?

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