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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Around how many people have gathered to attend the hanging in Chapter 2?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 1,000.

2. The gold pieces that Mattie’s father carried in his clothes were a wedding gift from Mattie’s grandfather named what?
(a) Jerry.
(b) Emmett.
(c) Spurling.
(d) George.

3. The sheriff tells Mattie in Chapter 2 that they think Tom Chaney was in with whose party that robbed a mail hack?
(a) L.T. Quinn’s party.
(b) Lucky Ned Pepper’s party.
(c) Mr. Bloodworth’s party.
(d) Bloody Bill Anderson’s party.

4. Mattie says in Chapter 2, “I thought then and still think that Fort Smith ought to be in” what state, as opposed to Arkansas?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Idaho.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) Wyoming.

5. How did Tom Chaney kill Mattie’s father, according to Mattie’s narrative in Chapter 1?
(a) He stabbed him.
(b) He drowned him.
(c) He shot him.
(d) He strangled him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mattie say “watched all his hangings from an upper window in the Courthouse” in Chapter 2?

2. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father had how many acres of “good bottom land on the south bank of the Arkansas River?

3. The sheriff tells Mattie in Chapter 2 that the reason he’s not hunting for Tom Chaney is because he has no authority where and that now Chaney is the business of the U.S. marshals?

4. What does Mattie say the two policemen at the city police station were doing when she and Yarnell arrived to speak with them in Chapter 2?

5. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father was wounded in battle in the “terrible fight at Chickamauga up in the state of” what?

(see the answer key)

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