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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Mattie give the night watchman at Colonel Stonehill’s barn to feed her horse and wake her before sunrise in Chapter 5?
(a) A half dollar.
(b) A nickel.
(c) A quarter.
(d) A dime.

2. Mattie states in Chapter 1 that Tom Chaney said he was from where?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Utah.

3. How much money does Mattie take with her when she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body in Chapter 2?
(a) $40.
(b) $25.
(c) $100.
(d) $60.

4. Colonel Stonehill tells Mattie in Chapter 5 that Rooster Cogburn “rode by the light of the moon with Quantrill and” who?
(a) Bloody Bill Anderson.
(b) Mr. Spotted-Gourd.
(c) John Wesley Hardin.
(d) Rutherford B. Hayes.

5. Mattie says in Chapter 3, “About the only outlaws in our country who ever went to Federal Court were "moonshiners" like” who?
(a) “James Poindexter and Civil War criminals.”
(b) “Jimmie Jackson and his crew.”
(c) “Jack Ross and the Mallory brothers.”
(d) “Old man Jerry Vick and his boys.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mattie’s sister’s name in the novel?

2. In his court testimony in Chapter 3, Rooster Cogburn states that who was killed?

3. In Mattie’s letter from Lawyer Daggett in Chapter 5, he relates that who was pressed into service to preach at Mattie’s father’s funeral?

4. What does Mattie name the pony that she buys from Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 5?

5. For how long does Mattie remain sick and in bed at the Monarch boarding house in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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