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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie describes the undertaker that she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body as being what in Chapter 2?
(a) An Englishman.
(b) An Irishman.
(c) A Scotsman.
(d) A Yankee.

2. Mattie claims in Chapter 3, “Papa used to say that the only friends we had down here right after the war were” whom?
(a) “The Irish Democrats in New York.”
(b) “The English Republicans in Chicago.”
(c) “The Indians and the cowboys.”
(d) “The carpetbagger Republicans.”

3. How much does Mattie pay to stay at the Monarch boarding house per night in Chapter 2?
(a) 90 cents.
(b) 45 cents.
(c) 25 cents.
(d) 75 cents.

4. When Mattie sends Yarnell back with her father’s body in Chapter 2, she tells him to have who put the body in a better coffin?
(a) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(b) Mr. MacDonald.
(c) Mr. Myers.
(d) William Waters.

5. After their argument in Chapter 4, Mattie says of Ranger LaBoeuf, “He was angered and thus he left me, clanking away in all his” what?
(a) “Arkansas trappings.”
(b) “Golden armor.”
(c) “Louisiana trappings.”
(d) “Texas trappings.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the sheriff describe in Chapter 2 as “a pitiless man, double-tough, and fear don't enter into his thinking”?

2. What kind of gun does Mattie describe Tom Chaney carrying in Chapter 1?

3. Ranger LaBoeuf tells Mattie in Chapter 4 that she is “very young” and what to boot?

4. The gold pieces that Mattie’s father carried in his clothes were a wedding gift from Mattie’s grandfather named what?

5. The sheriff tells Mattie in Chapter 2 that they think Tom Chaney was in with whose party that robbed a mail hack?

(see the answer key)

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