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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Mattie sends Yarnell back with her father’s body in Chapter 2, she tells him to have who put the body in a better coffin?
(a) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(b) Mr. Myers.
(c) Mr. MacDonald.
(d) William Waters.

3. Mattie says of her father in Chapter 1, “His head was full of” what?
(a) “Schemes.”
(b) “Compassion.”
(c) “Knowledge.”
(d) “Bad jokes.”

4. What month was it “when the last of the cotton was sold” in Chapter 1?
(a) November.
(b) September.
(c) February.
(d) May.

5. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father had how many acres of “good bottom land on the south bank of the Arkansas River?
(a) 640.
(b) 480.
(c) 160.
(d) 320.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Mattie Ross when she leaves home to avenge her father’s murder in the novel?

2. How much money does Mattie tell Colonel Stonehill that she wants for “Papa’s saddle horse that was stolen” in Chapter 3?

3. How much cash did Tom Chaney steal from Mattie’s father in addition to the gold coins?

4. Mattie describes the undertaker that she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body as being what in Chapter 2?

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?

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