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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, Yarnell Poindexter later died in the flu epidemic of what year?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1918.

2. In Mattie’s letter from Lawyer Daggett in Chapter 5, he relates that who was pressed into service to preach at Mattie’s father’s funeral?
(a) Governor Al Smith.
(b) Mr. MacDonald.
(c) Owen Hardy.
(d) William Waters.

3. Mattie says in Chapter 7 of Lucky Ned Pepper, “I had not thought before of this disfigured robber having had a” what?
(a) “Wife.”
(b) “Family.”
(c) “Church.”
(d) “Childhood.”

4. The gold pieces that Mattie’s father carried in his clothes were a wedding gift from Mattie’s grandfather named what?
(a) Jerry.
(b) Emmett.
(c) George.
(d) Spurling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattie says in Chapter 4, “I can remember when half the old ladies in the country were” what?

2. As he dies, one of the thieves tells Rooster in Chapter 6 that Ned and his gang are planning to rob whom tonight?

3. Who does Mattie share a room with at the Monarch boarding house in Chapter 2?

4. According to Ranger LaBoeuf’s papers in Chapter 4, he works out of a place called Ysleta outside of what Texas city?

5. Colonel Stonehill says in Chapter 3, “They told me this town was the be the” what of “the Southwest”?

(see the answer key)

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