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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mattie name the pony that she buys from Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 5?
(a) Thunder.
(b) Sunrise.
(c) Little Blackie.
(d) Elijah.

2. Where was Mattie’s father killed, according to the narrative in Chapter 1?
(a) St Louis, Missouri.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Houston, Texas.
(d) Fort Smith, Arkansas.

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) Arizona.
(c) Idaho.
(d) Oklahoma.

4. Mattie describes the undertaker that she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body as being what in Chapter 2?
(a) A Yankee.
(b) A Scotsman.
(c) An Englishman.
(d) An Irishman.

5. What ailment does Colonel Stonehill say is “making its annual visitation” in Chapter 5?
(a) Chicken pox.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Scurvy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much cash did Tom Chaney steal from Mattie’s father in addition to the gold coins?

2. Where in Texas did Tom Chaney presumably kill a Texas senator?

3. Mattie tells Ranger LaBoeuf in Chapter 4 that “the good people of Arkansas do not go easy on men who abuse” what?

4. When Mattie is sick in Chapter 4, Mrs. Floyd gives her what medication?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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