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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mattie hold over the fire to threaten Rooster Cogburn into agreeing to let her go with him in Chapter 5?
(a) His badge.
(b) His wallet.
(c) His bible.
(d) His expense sheets.

2. What does Mattie name the pony that she buys from Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 5?
(a) Sunrise.
(b) Elijah.
(c) Little Blackie.
(d) Thunder.

3. What kind of gun does Mattie describe Tom Chaney carrying in Chapter 1?
(a) A Mossberg shotgun.
(b) A Remington revolver.
(c) A Winchester rifle.
(d) A Henry rifle.

4. Rooster Cogburn learns from the storekeeper that Lucky Ned Pepper had been seen three days earlier where in Chapter 6?
(a) McAlester’s store.
(b) McKinley’s store.
(c) Anderson’s store.
(d) Wilson’s store.

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) 480.
(b) 320.
(c) 640.
(d) 160.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

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

3. When Mattie and Ranger LaBoeuf get into a disagreement in Chapter 4, Ranger LaBoeuf tells Mattie that earlier in the night he gave some thought to stealing what from her?

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

5. After their argument in Chapter 4, Mattie says of Ranger LaBoeuf, “He was angered and thus he left me, clanking away in all his” what?

(see the answer key)

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