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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The gold coins that were stolen from Mattie’s father were from where?
(a) Idaho.
(b) Alaska.
(c) Washington.
(d) California.

2. Regarding the trial of the Wharton man, Rooster tells Mattie in Chapter 5 that Lawyer Goudy is going to Washington to see if what President will commute the sentence?
(a) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(b) Chester A. Arthur.
(c) Grover Cleveland.
(d) James A. Garfield.

3. Mattie says in Chapter 3, “You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except” what?
(a) “The Grace of God.”
(b) “The air we breathe.”
(c) “A mother’s love.”
(d) “The dirt we walk on.”

4. Mattie tells Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 3 that her family sold their early cotton in Little Rock to whom?
(a) Marcus Brothers.
(b) Smith and Sons.
(c) Woodson Brothers.
(d) Barnes and Son.

5. 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?
(a) “Memphis.”
(b) “Biloxi.”
(c) “Branson.”
(d) “Little Rock.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattie compares the mark on Tom Chaney’s face with whose in Chapter 4?

2. Mattie says in Chapter 2, “I thought then and still think that Fort Smith ought to be in” what state, as opposed to Arkansas?

3. Where did Yarnell Poindexter later become a prosperous house painter, according to Mattie in Chapter 1?

4. Mattie describes the undertaker that she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body as being what in Chapter 2?

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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