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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of Mrs. Floyd, Mattie says in Chapter 5 that she “could no more keep her mouth closed than can a” what?
(a) “Blue crabs.”
(b) “Alaskan salmon.”
(c) “Yellow catfish.”
(d) “Maine lobster.”

2. What is described as the highest point in Arkansas in Chapter 1?
(a) Mount Murphy.
(b) Mount McKinley.
(c) Mount Magazine.
(d) Mount Michigan.

3. Mattie claims in Chapter 3, “Papa used to say that the only friends we had down here right after the war were” whom?
(a) “The Indians and the cowboys.”
(b) “The carpetbagger Republicans.”
(c) “The Irish Democrats in New York.”
(d) “The English Republicans in Chicago.”

4. How many men does Rooster Cogburn claim to have killed in his years as a U.S. marshal in Chapter 3?
(a) 14.
(b) 58.
(c) 35.
(d) 23.

5. 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?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Playing chess.
(c) Having a fistfight.
(d) Drinking coffee.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Mattie’s letter from Lawyer Daggett in Chapter 5, he relates that who is “still away on his deer hunt”?

2. 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?

3. Who does Mattie say “watched all his hangings from an upper window in the Courthouse” in Chapter 2?

4. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father was wounded in battle in the “terrible fight at Chickamauga up in the state of” what?

5. What does Mattie hold over the fire to threaten Rooster Cogburn into agreeing to let her go with him in Chapter 5?

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