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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The sheriff tells Mattie in Chapter 2 that the reason he’s not hunting for Tom Chaney is because he has no authority where and that now Chaney is the business of the U.S. marshals?
(a) In a National Park.
(b) Hot Spring County.
(c) The Indian Nation.
(d) The State of Texas.

2. 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 mother.
(b) Mattie’s father.
(c) Mattie’s grandmother.
(d) Mattie’s brother.

3. Mattie says in Chapter 2, “I thought then and still think that Fort Smith ought to be in” what state, as opposed to Arkansas?
(a) Wyoming.
(b) Idaho.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Oklahoma.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Mattie Ross when she leaves home to avenge her father’s murder in the novel?

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

4. What was the name of Mattie’s father?

5. In what county is Dardanelle located?

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