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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Virginia.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Illinois.

2. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father was a church member where?
(a) Marion Catholic.
(b) Ouachita Orthodox.
(c) Cumberland Presbyterian.
(d) Crawford Unitarian.

3. Mattie describes the undertaker that she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body as being what in Chapter 2?
(a) A Yankee.
(b) An Englishman.
(c) An Irishman.
(d) A Scotsman.

4. What is the name of the hangman in Chapter 2?
(a) Farrell Permalee.
(b) Mr. Spotted-Gourd.
(c) George Maledon.
(d) William Waters.

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. What stock trader does Mattie’s father go to see in Fort Smith in Chapter 1?

2. 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?

3. Mattie describes a noisy boy going through the crowd at the hanging and selling what?

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

5. Around how many people have gathered to attend the hanging in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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