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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what nickname does Mattie refer to Texas in Chapter 1?
(a) The Lone Star State.
(b) The Granite State.
(c) Big Sky Country.
(d) Land of the Midnight Sun.

2. Mattie says of her father in Chapter 1, “His head was full of” what?
(a) “Knowledge.”
(b) “Schemes.”
(c) “Compassion.”
(d) “Bad jokes.”

3. What stock trader does Mattie’s father go to see in Fort Smith in Chapter 1?
(a) Colonel Stonehill.
(b) Bloody Bill Anderson.
(c) Rooster Cogburn.
(d) Mr. MacDonald.

4. Mattie states in Chapter 1 that Tom Chaney said he was from where?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Utah.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How old does Mattie describe Tom Chaney as being in Chapter 1?

4. Why did Papa take “it in his head to go to Fort Smith” after the last of the cotton was sold, according to Mattie in Chapter 1?

5. The gold coins that were stolen from Mattie’s father were from where?

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