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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. Why does Captain Kidd say that he has to return Johanna to her relatives?
2. Who do the Horrell brothers say might object to their methods of instituting law and order?
3. How many Horrell brothers are there?
4. What is it that draws Captain Kidd’s blood during the fire fight with Almay and the Caddos?
5. What does Captain Kidd think should be done to people who are “born unsupplied with a human conscience” (110)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Captain Kidd and Johanna celebrate their victory over Almay and the Caddos?
2. What kind of appearance do the Horrell brothers make before Captain Kidd and Johanna?
3. Why does the sight of the chickens Johanna took from the stave mill make Captain Kidd cry?
4. How does the narrator explain Johanna’s way of valuing things?
5. How does Johanna react to her return to family?
6. How does Johanna save Captain Kidd’s life when they are passing through the hill country to Fredericksburg?
7. What does Captain Kidd tell us about other returned captives, and what are his apprehensions about Johanna?
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. What is Captain Kidd nervous about now that the Almay and the Caddos have been defeated?
10. Where does Captain Kidd take shelter in his flight from Almay?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Where do you see the story line of News of the World taking place in today’s culture? Are there parallels between Captain Kidd and Johanna and people today? What is the closest film or book or news story to the events represented here? How has the story changed? How has it remained the same?
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 cultural territory between Native American and white Americans has always been both tense, in a military sense, and fertile, in a cultural sense, as Native Americans have occupied a symbolic place in America’s sense of its identity as a country. How does Paulette Jiles locate her historical novel in that longer history? Is she prone to romanticizing Native Americans, or does she depict Native American culture in realistic and nuanced terms?
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