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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie learns at the Federal Courthouse in Chapter 3 that the head marshal has gone where to deliver prisoners to the house of correction?
(a) Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Detroit, Michigan.
(d) Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2. Mattie says in Chapter 2, “I thought then and still think that Fort Smith ought to be in” what state, as opposed to Arkansas?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Idaho.

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

4. Colonel Stonehill says in Chapter 3, “They told me this town was the be the” what of “the Southwest”?
(a) “Chicago.”
(b) “Memphis.”
(c) “Buffalo.”
(d) “Pittsburgh.”

5. What was the name of the man who kidnapped Yarnell Poindexter and brought him to Arkansas just before the war?
(a) Mr. James.
(b) Mr. Bloodworth.
(c) Mr. MacDonald.
(d) Mr. Myers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattie describes a noisy boy going through the crowd at the hanging and selling what?

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

3. Mattie claims in Chapter 3, “Papa used to say that the only friends we had down here right after the war were” whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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