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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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”?
(a) Mr. James.
(b) Jerry Vick.
(c) Emmett Quincy.
(d) L.T. Quinn.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What was the name of the man who kidnapped Yarnell Poindexter and brought him to Arkansas just before the war?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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