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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Mattie says in Chapter 3 that Judge Parker died of dropsy in what year?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1875.

3. Where did Yarnell Poindexter later become a prosperous house painter, according to Mattie in Chapter 1?
(a) Dallas, Texas.
(b) Detroit, Michigan.
(c) Denver, Colorado.
(d) Memphis, Tennessee.

4. What lawyer’s name does Mattie threaten Colonel Stonehill with in Chapter 3?
(a) Lawyer D. Farrell Permalee.
(b) Lawyer M. Owen Hardy.
(c) Lawyer T. Emmett Quincy.
(d) Lawyer J. Noble Daggett.

5. Mattie learns at the Federal Courthouse in Chapter 3 that the head marshal has gone where to deliver prisoners to the house of correction?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(c) Detroit, Michigan.
(d) Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Mattie sends Yarnell back with her father’s body in Chapter 2, she tells him to have who put the body in a better coffin?

3. Mattie says in Chapter 2, “I noticed that the houses in Fort Smith were numbered but it was no city at all compared to” where?

4. Mattie claims in Chapter 3, “Papa used to say that the only friends we had down here right after the war were” whom?

5. How much money does Mattie take with her when she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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