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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the worst of the damage suffered by the Captain’s part, after the shootout at Carlyle Springs?
(a) The wagon’s thrown tie rod.
(b) His cut eye.
(c) Johanna’s injured hand.
(d) Pasha’s lame leg.

2. How long ago did Captain Kidd’s wife die, that he came up these roads into North Texas?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

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

4. How do Captain Kidd and Johanna cross at the Brazos ferry?
(a) They swim across.
(b) They are poled across on a boat.
(c) They are pulled across on wires.
(d) They are carried across on a raft.

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

6. Where does Johanna sleep, for her first night back with her aunt and uncle?
(a) On the floor.
(b) In the Curative Waters wagon.
(c) On a plank.
(d) In a bed.

7. What smell does Captain Kidd remember as he and Johanna descend into the country around Resaca de la Palma?
(a) Dead bodies.
(b) Cannon smoke.
(c) Festival smells of cooking.
(d) Gunpowder.

8. What does the narrator say about Johanna’s reintegration into American culture?
(a) She remained a Kiowa all her days.
(b) She became an America through and through.
(c) She was part American, part Kiowa.
(d) She became her own person, neither American nor Kiowa.

9. How does Captain Kidd surprise the Mexican women washing clothes in Alazan Creek in San Antonio?
(a) By joining them in their washing.
(b) By recognizing some of them.
(c) By calling out saucy things to them.
(d) By answering their saucy things in Spanish.

10. Why does Captain Kidd say that he has to return Johanna to her relatives?
(a) Because he took money and it would be robbery if he did not.
(b) Because he is only responsible for himself and his own people.
(c) Because cruelty is the law of the country and he cannot change that.
(d) Because he was only doing a job, and her welfare is not his job any longer.

11. What does Johanna think about while the outraged woman scolds her about “modesty while bathing” (139)?
(a) Her childhood before captivity.
(b) Her Kiowa friends.
(c) Captain Kidd’s desire for her to be clean.
(d) Her mother.

12. What are Quakers associated with, on the Texas frontier?
(a) Women’s suffrage.
(b) The Peace Policy of Indian settlements.
(c) Reconstruction.
(d) Negro suffrage.

13. What is it that causes Johanna to start weeping about her future life?
(a) John Calley offers to save her.
(b) Captain Kidd describes the house she will live in.
(c) Captain Kidd tells her he will not need her to collect dimes at his talks any more.
(d) Mrs. Gannet tells her what kind of work she will have to do.

14. What does Captain Kidd give the old lady he and Johanna meet, in a gig, riding back toward Durand?
(a) Money to pay for the chickens Johanna took.
(b) Dimes for John Calley.
(c) A letter for her to post.
(d) A letter for the mill owner they stayed with.

15. What does John Calley apologize to Captain Kidd for, as he helps him collect the dimes that were spilled by the fighting during Captain Kidd’s Durand reading?
(a) Turning him away from his hotel.
(b) The rudeness of his townsmen.
(c) Taking money from him on the road.
(d) Overcharging him for supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Kidd say we are supposed to do with the message we carry through life?

2. In Chapter 20, what does Wilhelm say Johanna must learn again?

3. What does the narrator say Almay’s face looked like it had been printed with in Chapter 12?

4. How many Horrell brothers are there?

5. Who is the author of the quote Captain Kidd quotes to John Calley, that the laws should be publicized openly, and apply equally to king and peasant?

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