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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Regarding the trial of the Wharton man, Rooster tells Mattie in Chapter 5 that Lawyer Goudy is going to Washington to see if what President will commute the sentence?
(a) Grover Cleveland.
(b) James A. Garfield.
(c) Chester A. Arthur.
(d) Rutherford B. Hayes.

2. Who does Mattie say “watched all his hangings from an upper window in the Courthouse” in Chapter 2?
(a) George Garrett.
(b) Governor Al Smith.
(c) Mr. Burlingame.
(d) Judge Isaac Parker.

3. The gold pieces that Mattie’s father carried in his clothes were a wedding gift from Mattie’s grandfather named what?
(a) Jerry.
(b) George.
(c) Spurling.
(d) Emmett.

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) Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(c) Detroit, Michigan.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

5. What book does Mattie read to Grandma Turner that’s about “a girl in England who could not make up her mind whether to marry a rich man with a pack of dogs named Alec or a preacher” in Chapter 4?
(a) For Substance or Money.
(b) Bess Galloway’s Disappointment.
(c) One of the Pack.
(d) Wolfgang or the Banker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattie says in Chapter 3, “About the only outlaws in our country who ever went to Federal Court were "moonshiners" like” who?

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

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

4. What song does the preacher lead the men about to be hung in as Mattie watches in Chapter 2?

5. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father had how many acres of “good bottom land on the south bank of the Arkansas River?

(see the answer key)

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