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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the man who kidnapped Yarnell Poindexter and brought him to Arkansas just before the war?
(a) Mr. Bloodworth.
(b) Mr. James.
(c) Mr. Myers.
(d) Mr. MacDonald.

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

3. 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) “Jack Ross and the Mallory brothers.”
(c) “Jimmie Jackson and his crew.”
(d) “Old man Jerry Vick and his boys.”

4. 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) 160.
(b) 480.
(c) 640.
(d) 320.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much money does Colonel Stonehill agree to give Mattie after haggling with her in Chapter 3?

3. 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?

4. How much money does Mattie tell Colonel Stonehill that she wants for “Papa’s saddle horse that was stolen” in Chapter 3?

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

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