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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of Mattie’s father?
(a) Matthew Ross.
(b) Frank Ross.
(c) Jacob Ross.
(d) Alfred Ross.

3. What stock trader does Mattie’s father go to see in Fort Smith in Chapter 1?
(a) Colonel Stonehill.
(b) Bloody Bill Anderson.
(c) Rooster Cogburn.
(d) Mr. MacDonald.

4. Mattie says in Chapter 3, “About the only outlaws in our country who ever went to Federal Court were "moonshiners" like” who?
(a) “Jack Ross and the Mallory brothers.”
(b) “Jimmie Jackson and his crew.”
(c) “Old man Jerry Vick and his boys.”
(d) “James Poindexter and Civil War criminals.”

5. Rooster Cogburn lives in a small room in back of what in Chapter 3?
(a) Chinese grocery store.
(b) The town library.
(c) A church.
(d) A funeral home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspaper does Mattie mention that publishes a delinquent tax list every year in Chapter 3?

2. Mattie learns at the Federal Courthouse in Chapter 3 that the head marshal has gone where to deliver prisoners to the house of correction?

3. Yarnell Poindexter is described as a freeborn black man from where?

4. How much does the shipping cost to send Mattie’s father to Dardanelle in Chapter 2?

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

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