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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Captain Kidd’s plan if they were victim to raiders?
(a) Abandon the wagon and make a run for it on Pasha.
(b) Bargain with the raiders.
(c) Fight it out with dimes in the shotgun.
(d) Take cover in a steep canyon and wait for help.

3. What do the people argue about, when they disrupt Captain Kidd’s reading in Durand?
(a) The end of military rule in Texas.
(b) Governor Davis’ corruption.
(c) The importance of the Civil War.
(d) The state of the economy.

4. What is it that draws Captain Kidd’s blood during the fire fight with Almay and the Caddos?
(a) He is hit by splintered rock.
(b) He falls on thorns.
(c) He is grazed. by a bullet.
(d) He bangs his head on the wagon.

5. In Chapter 15, what does Captain Kidd say people always want to hear from travelers?
(a) The state of the economy in other counties.
(b) Whether there will be another war.
(c) What the crops are like in other towns.
(d) The condition of the roads.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which direction does Captain Kidd turn the Curative Waters wagon once he picks Johanna up again from her aunt and uncle's?

2. Where do Captain Kidd and Johanna take shelter when they stop for the night in the hill country?

3. How does the Captain discern that the figures crossing the river are Kiowa?

4. What does Captain Kidd say his daughter Elizabeth will enjoy, once she comes to San Antonio from the East?

5. Where does Captain Kidd make arrangements to read the news in Durand?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who helps Captain Kidd collect his dimes when the fight moves outside from the mercantile in Durand?

2. How do Captain Kidd and Johanna turn the tides of the battle Carlyle Springs?

3. How does Johanna save Captain Kidd’s life when they are passing through the hill country to Fredericksburg?

4. How does the novel speed up after the fight in Durand?

5. How does Johanna react to her return to family?

6. How does Captain Kidd reunite with Johanna, and how does she leave Anna and Wilhelm?

7. What does Captain Kidd do now that he has returned Johanna to her family?

8. What uproar does Johanna cause near the river with the stave mill, and how does she react when the uproar is settled?

9. 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?

10. What is Captain Kidd’s first impression of Johanna’s aunt and uncle, Wilhelm and Anna Leonberger?

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