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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the sheriff describe in Chapter 2 as “a pitiless man, double-tough, and fear don't enter into his thinking”?
(a) Owen Hardy.
(b) Rooster Cogburn.
(c) George Maledon.
(d) Emmett Quincy.

2. What does Mattie say the two policemen at the city police station were doing when she and Yarnell arrived to speak with them in Chapter 2?
(a) Playing chess.
(b) Having a fistfight.
(c) Drinking coffee.
(d) Playing cards.

3. What is described as the highest point in Arkansas in Chapter 1?
(a) Mount Michigan.
(b) Mount McKinley.
(c) Mount Magazine.
(d) Mount Murphy.

4. Mattie tells Ranger LaBoeuf in Chapter 4 that “the good people of Arkansas do not go easy on men who abuse” what?
(a) “Poor people.”
(b) “Political appointees.”
(c) “Church officials.”
(d) “Women and children.”

5. Who is the “bandit armed with a shotgun and squatting behind a big slab of limestone” that Mattie and Ned encounter as they make their way up the hill in Chapter 7?
(a) Harold Permalee.
(b) Theron Chelmsford.
(c) Lucky Ned Pepper.
(d) L.T. Quinn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rooster Cogburn learns from the storekeeper that Lucky Ned Pepper had been seen three days earlier with a robber called what in Chapter 6?

2. What does Quincy do when Moon starts to talk about what he knows in Chapter 6?

3. By what name does Lucky Ned Pepper call LaBoeuf before Mattie tells him his real name in Chapter 7?

4. Which U.S. marshal does the sheriff say in Chapter 2 brings in prisoners alive and “believes even the worst of men is entitled to a fair shake”?

5. In what county is Dardanelle located?

(see the answer key)

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