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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie says in Chapter 2, “I noticed that the houses in Fort Smith were numbered but it was no city at all compared to” where?
(a) “Branson.”
(b) “Memphis.”
(c) “Little Rock.”
(d) “Biloxi.”

2. How did Tom Chaney kill Mattie’s father, according to Mattie’s narrative in Chapter 1?
(a) He shot him.
(b) He drowned him.
(c) He stabbed him.
(d) He strangled him.

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

4. Mattie describes Rooster Cogburn as “an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of” whom, in Chapter 3?
(a) “Thomas Jefferson.”
(b) “Teddy Roosevelt.”
(c) “Grover Cleveland.”
(d) “Bulldog Smith.”

5. What lawyer’s name does Mattie threaten Colonel Stonehill with in Chapter 3?
(a) Lawyer D. Farrell Permalee.
(b) Lawyer T. Emmett Quincy.
(c) Lawyer M. Owen Hardy.
(d) Lawyer J. Noble Daggett.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where has Lawyer Daggett gone to “try one of his steamboat suits” in the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. Who does Mattie share a room with at the Monarch boarding house in Chapter 2?

5. In his court testimony in Chapter 3, Rooster Cogburn states that who was killed?

(see the answer key)

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