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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Papa take “it in his head to go to Fort Smith” after the last of the cotton was sold, according to Mattie in Chapter 1?
(a) To do some gambling.
(b) To sell some gold.
(c) To clear his head.
(d) To buy some ponies.

2. Of whom does Mattie say in Chapter 4, that she knows he “is ‘wet’ but that is because of his race and religion and he is not personally accountable for that”?
(a) Governor James Wilson.
(b) Governor Al Smith.
(c) Governor Jim Jackson.
(d) Governor Mike Nichols.

3. About how old is Ranger LaBoeuf when Mattie describes his arrival in Chapter 4?
(a) 22.
(b) 25.
(c) 28.
(d) 30.

4. Of what does Ranger LaBoeuf say in Chapter 4 that it “is sordid and dangerous and is best left in the hands of men who know the work”?
(a) “Bank robberies.”
(b) “Executions.”
(c) “Jury trials.”
(d) “Criminal investigation.”

5. Mattie claims in Chapter 3, “Papa used to say that the only friends we had down here right after the war were” whom?
(a) “The Indians and the cowboys.”
(b) “The English Republicans in Chicago.”
(c) “The carpetbagger Republicans.”
(d) “The Irish Democrats in New York.”

Short Answer Questions

1. In Mattie’s letter from Lawyer Daggett in Chapter 5, he relates that who is “still away on his deer hunt”?

2. Rooster Cogburn lives in a small room in back of what in Chapter 3?

3. What is Mattie served for breakfast by Mrs. Floyd in the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. Colonel Stonehill says in Chapter 3, “They told me this town was the be the” what of “the Southwest”?

5. What lawyer’s name does Mattie threaten Colonel Stonehill with in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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