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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie tells Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 3 that her family sold their early cotton in Little Rock to whom?
(a) Marcus Brothers.
(b) Woodson Brothers.
(c) Smith and Sons.
(d) Barnes and Son.

2. What is the name of the cat where Rooster Cogburn lives in Chapter 3?
(a) Admiral Forest Jacobs.
(b) Corporal Jack Bartle.
(c) General Sterling Price.
(d) Governor Al Smith.

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

4. What newspaper does Mattie mention that publishes a delinquent tax list every year in Chapter 3?
(a) The Chicago Chronicle.
(b) The Arkansas Gazette.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Houston Weekly.

5. What was the name of Mattie’s father?
(a) Frank Ross.
(b) Matthew Ross.
(c) Jacob Ross.
(d) Alfred Ross.

Short Answer 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?

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. 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?

4. What was the name of the man who kidnapped Yarnell Poindexter and brought him to Arkansas just before the war?

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

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