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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much does the shipping cost to send Mattie’s father to Dardanelle in Chapter 2?
(a) $5.25.
(b) $2.75.
(c) $14.00.
(d) $9.50.

2. Why did Papa take “it in his head to go to Fort Smith” after the last of the cotton was sold, according to Mattie in Chapter 1?
(a) To clear his head.
(b) To do some gambling.
(c) To buy some ponies.
(d) To sell some gold.

3. In what county is Dardanelle located?
(a) Hot Spring County.
(b) Hempstead County.
(c) Independence County.
(d) Yell County.

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

5. Who does the sheriff describe in Chapter 2 as “a pitiless man, double-tough, and fear don't enter into his thinking”?
(a) Emmett Quincy.
(b) George Maledon.
(c) Rooster Cogburn.
(d) Owen Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Mattie’s father?

2. How much does Mattie pay to stay at the Monarch boarding house per night in Chapter 2?

3. Mattie tells Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 3 that her family sold their early cotton in Little Rock to whom?

4. What is Mattie served for breakfast by Mrs. Floyd in the beginning of Chapter 3?

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

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