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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mattie share a room with at the Monarch boarding house in Chapter 2?
(a) Theron Chelmsford.
(b) Grandma Turner.
(c) Harold Permalee.
(d) The Original Greaser Bob.

2. How far away is the location that Rooster Cogburn wants to go to find Ned Pepper’s band after crossing the river by the store in Chapter 6?
(a) 60 miles.
(b) 15 miles.
(c) 25 miles.
(d) 50 miles.

3. What does LaBoeuf do when he ambushes Mattie at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) He yells at her.
(b) He whips her.
(c) He quotes the bible.
(d) He spits on her.

4. Yarnell Poindexter is described as a freeborn black man from where?
(a) Michigan.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Montana.

5. How old is Mattie Ross when she leaves home to avenge her father’s murder in the novel?
(a) 17.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattie and Ranger LaBoeuf get into an argument regarding where Tom Chaney is to be what, in Chapter 4?

2. What does Rooster Cogburn have for a ground sheet when they make camp in Chapter 6?

3. In Mattie’s letter from Lawyer Daggett in Chapter 5, he tells her that who is “down with an earache”?

4. Where in Louisiana does Ranger LaBoeuf say Tom Chaney dallies before turning up at Mattie’s father’s place in Chapter 4?

5. Mattie says in Chapter 3, “You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except” what?

(see the answer key)

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