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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. What does the U.S. Army Sergeant do, when the people of Durand start to fight during Captain Kidd’s reading?
2. Where does Johanna sleep, for her first night back with her aunt and uncle?
3. Where does Captain Kidd make arrangements to read the news in Durand?
4. What smell does Captain Kidd remember as he and Johanna descend into the country around Resaca de la Palma?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the novel speed up after the fight in Durand?
2. How do Almay and the Caddos approach Captain Kidd, and how does this work in Captain Kidd’s favor?
3. 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?
4. How does Captain Kidd justify his refusal to read local news from Daily State Journal?
5. What is Captain Kidd’s first impression of Johanna’s aunt and uncle, Wilhelm and Anna Leonberger?
6. Where does Captain Kidd take shelter in his flight from Almay?
7. What does Captain Kidd do now that he has returned Johanna to her family?
8. Who helps Captain Kidd collect his dimes when the fight moves outside from the mercantile in Durand?
9. What does Captain Kidd tell us about other returned captives, and what are his apprehensions about Johanna?
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
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?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Evaluate the ending of News of the World. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?
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