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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Mattie say “watched all his hangings from an upper window in the Courthouse” in Chapter 2?
(a) George Garrett.
(b) Judge Isaac Parker.
(c) Mr. Burlingame.
(d) Governor Al Smith.

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

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?
(a) 160.
(b) 480.
(c) 320.
(d) 640.

5. 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?
(a) Hot Spring County.
(b) In a National Park.
(c) The Indian Nation.
(d) The State of Texas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father was wounded in battle in the “terrible fight at Chickamauga up in the state of” what?

3. What month was it “when the last of the cotton was sold” in Chapter 1?

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

5. Approximately how much is the charge for embalming and the coffin for Mattie’s father in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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