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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where in Texas did Tom Chaney presumably kill a Texas senator?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Houston.
(c) Waco.
(d) Austin.

2. 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) “Old man Jerry Vick and his boys.”
(c) “Jack Ross and the Mallory brothers.”
(d) “James Poindexter and Civil War criminals.”

3. For how long does Mattie remain sick and in bed at the Monarch boarding house in Chapter 4?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 1 day.

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

5. 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?
(a) A nickel.
(b) A dime.
(c) A quarter.
(d) A half dollar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattie says in Chapter 3 that Judge Parker died of dropsy in what year?

2. What is the name of the night watchman at Colonel Stonehill’s barn when Mattie stays the night in Chapter 5?

3. What animals does Mattie say in Chapter 3 are “all wicked, though often useful”?

4. Where has Lawyer Daggett gone to “try one of his steamboat suits” in the beginning of Chapter 2?

5. Mattie tells Ranger LaBoeuf in Chapter 4 that “the good people of Arkansas do not go easy on men who abuse” what?

(see the answer key)

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