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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much does the shipping cost to send Mattie’s father to Dardanelle in Chapter 2?
(a) $2.75.
(b) $14.00.
(c) $5.25.
(d) $9.50.

2. What is Mattie’s sister’s name in the novel?
(a) Melanie.
(b) Mary.
(c) Veronica.
(d) Victoria.

3. How long does the Indian struggle before he dies in the hanging in Chapter 2?
(a) 5 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 10 minutes.

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

5. What does Mattie say the two policemen at the city police station were doing when she and Yarnell arrived to speak with them in Chapter 2?
(a) Drinking coffee.
(b) Playing chess.
(c) Having a fistfight.
(d) Playing cards.

6. What is the name of the hangman in Chapter 2?
(a) William Waters.
(b) Mr. Spotted-Gourd.
(c) George Maledon.
(d) Farrell Permalee.

7. How much money does Mattie take with her when she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body in Chapter 2?
(a) $100.
(b) $60.
(c) $25.
(d) $40.

8. Who does Mattie share a room with at the Monarch boarding house in Chapter 2?
(a) Theron Chelmsford.
(b) Harold Permalee.
(c) The Original Greaser Bob.
(d) Grandma Turner.

9. 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) “Biloxi.”
(b) “Little Rock.”
(c) “Branson.”
(d) “Memphis.”

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

11. What song does the preacher lead the men about to be hung in as Mattie watches in Chapter 2?
(a) End of the Road.
(b) Saving Grace.
(c) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
(d) Amazing Grace.

12. Around how many people have gathered to attend the hanging in Chapter 2?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 500.

13. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father had how many acres of “good bottom land on the south bank of the Arkansas River?
(a) 640.
(b) 160.
(c) 320.
(d) 480.

14. What kind of gun does Mattie describe Tom Chaney carrying in Chapter 1?
(a) A Henry rifle.
(b) A Winchester rifle.
(c) A Mossberg shotgun.
(d) A Remington revolver.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the man who kidnapped Yarnell Poindexter and brought him to Arkansas just before the war?

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

3. Mattie tells Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 3 that her family sold their early cotton in Little Rock to whom?

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

5. Yarnell Poindexter is described as a freeborn black man from where?

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