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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie says of her father in Chapter 1, “His head was full of” what?
(a) “Schemes.”
(b) “Compassion.”
(c) “Knowledge.”
(d) “Bad jokes.”

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

3. 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) Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Minneapolis, Minnesota.
(d) Detroit, Michigan.

4. Mattie sees that Yarnell wants to attend the hanging, so she tells him that they’ll go but won’t tell whom in Chapter 2?
(a) Mattie’s grandmother.
(b) Mattie’s mother.
(c) Mattie’s brother.
(d) Mattie’s father.

5. 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) Governor Al Smith.
(d) Mr. Burlingame.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Mattie give the night watchman at Colonel Stonehill’s barn to feed her horse and wake her before sunrise in Chapter 5?

2. What does Mattie name the pony that she buys from Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 5?

3. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, Yarnell Poindexter later died in the flu epidemic of what year?

4. What is the name of the hangman in Chapter 2?

5. Ranger LaBoeuf is looking for Tom Chaney because he killed a senator in Texas named what?

(see the answer key)

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