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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old does Mattie describe Tom Chaney as being in Chapter 1?
(a) 19.
(b) 25.
(c) 22.
(d) 17.

3. What is Rooster Cogburn’s real first name in the novel?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Fabian.
(c) Wilfred.
(d) Reuben.

4. Who does Mattie share a room with at the Monarch boarding house in Chapter 2?
(a) Harold Permalee.
(b) The Original Greaser Bob.
(c) Grandma Turner.
(d) Theron Chelmsford.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In his court testimony in Chapter 3, Rooster Cogburn states that he has been a U.S. marshal for almost how many years?

3. The sheriff tells Mattie in Chapter 2 that the reason he’s not hunting for Tom Chaney is because he has no authority where and that now Chaney is the business of the U.S. marshals?

4. Mattie describes Rooster Cogburn as “an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of” whom, in Chapter 3?

5. How many men does Rooster Cogburn claim to have killed in his years as a U.S. marshal in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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