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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rooster Cogburn arrange in a lariat around his bed in Chapter 6?
(a) To thwart off snakes.
(b) To confuse the ants.
(c) To scare off mice.
(d) To reflect the moonlight.

2. 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) Drinking coffee.
(c) Having a fistfight.
(d) Playing chess.

3. What food item does Mattie describe in Chapter 6 as “balls of what I would call hot-water cornbread”?
(a) Corn dodgers.
(b) Corn kabobs.
(c) Corn floppers.
(d) Corn bombers.

4. Rooster Cogburn learns from the storekeeper that Lucky Ned Pepper had been seen three days earlier where in Chapter 6?
(a) McKinley’s store.
(b) Wilson’s store.
(c) McAlester’s store.
(d) Anderson’s store.

5. Who does Rooster Cogburn tell the boys to claim cut Mr. Simmons’s mule loose in Chapter 6?
(a) Mr. Bibbs.
(b) Mr. Burlingame.
(c) Mr. Myers.
(d) Mr. James.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ghost story does Mattie suggest telling around the campfire in Chapter 6?

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. How long does Rooster Cogburn say the sentence is for resisting a Federal officer in Chapter 6?

4. Ranger LaBoeuf tells Mattie in Chapter 4, “Now I am of a mind to give you” what?

5. Where does Quincy claim they got the horses in Chapter 6 when questioned about them by Rooster?

(see the answer key)

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