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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, Yarnell Poindexter later died in the flu epidemic of what year?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1897.

2. What stock trader does Mattie’s father go to see in Fort Smith in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. MacDonald.
(b) Colonel Stonehill.
(c) Rooster Cogburn.
(d) Bloody Bill Anderson.

3. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father was wounded in battle in the “terrible fight at Chickamauga up in the state of” what?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Virginia.

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

5. Yarnell Poindexter is described as a freeborn black man from where?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Montana.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father was a church member where?

2. The gold coins that were stolen from Mattie’s father were from where?

3. In what county is Dardanelle located?

4. How old is Mattie Ross when she leaves home to avenge her father’s murder in the novel?

5. By what nickname does Mattie refer to Texas in Chapter 1?

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