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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie sees that Yarnell wants to attend the hanging, so she tells him that they’ll go but won’t tell whom in Chapter 2?
(a) Mattie’s father.
(b) Mattie’s grandmother.
(c) Mattie’s mother.
(d) Mattie’s brother.

2. How old does Mattie describe Tom Chaney as being in Chapter 1?
(a) 25.
(b) 19.
(c) 17.
(d) 22.

3. Mattie says in Chapter 2, “I noticed that the houses in Fort Smith were numbered but it was no city at all compared to” where?
(a) “Little Rock.”
(b) “Biloxi.”
(c) “Memphis.”
(d) “Branson.”

4. Mattie states in Chapter 1 that Tom Chaney said he was from where?
(a) Utah.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Georgia.

5. How old is Mattie Ross when she leaves home to avenge her father’s murder in the novel?
(a) 14.
(b) 20.
(c) 17.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which U.S. marshal does the sheriff say in Chapter 2 brings in prisoners alive and “believes even the worst of men is entitled to a fair shake”?

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

3. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, Yarnell Poindexter later died in the flu epidemic of what year?

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

5. How much money does Mattie take with her when she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body in Chapter 2?

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