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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mattie share a room with at the Monarch boarding house in Chapter 2?
(a) Theron Chelmsford.
(b) Grandma Turner.
(c) The Original Greaser Bob.
(d) Harold Permalee.

2. Where did Yarnell Poindexter later become a prosperous house painter, according to Mattie in Chapter 1?
(a) Memphis, Tennessee.
(b) Dallas, Texas.
(c) Detroit, Michigan.
(d) Denver, Colorado.

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

4. 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 mother.
(c) Mattie’s grandmother.
(d) Mattie’s brother.

5. How long does the Indian struggle before he dies in the hanging in Chapter 2?
(a) 5 minutes.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 15 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. Mattie says of her father in Chapter 1, “His head was full of” what?

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