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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What month was it “when the last of the cotton was sold” in Chapter 1?
(a) May.
(b) November.
(c) September.
(d) February.

2. In his court testimony in Chapter 3, Rooster Cogburn states that he has been a U.S. marshal for almost how many years?
(a) 4.
(b) 15.
(c) 7.
(d) 10.

3. How did Tom Chaney kill Mattie’s father, according to Mattie’s narrative in Chapter 1?
(a) He shot him.
(b) He stabbed him.
(c) He strangled him.
(d) He drowned him.

4. 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) Drinking coffee.
(b) Having a fistfight.
(c) Playing chess.
(d) Playing cards.

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) L.T. Quinn.
(b) Lucky Ned Pepper.
(c) Harold Permalee.
(d) Theron Chelmsford.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what time does Mattie go to the stock barn and exchange her release for the cash from Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 5?

3. Where does Ned promise to meet Tom Chaney and give him his share of the loot in Chapter 7?

4. Ranger LaBoeuf tells Mattie that Tom Chaney’s real name is what in Chapter 4?

5. In the faceoff with Rooster Cogburn in Chapter 7, who among Ned’s gang “rode wider than the others and he lay flat on his horse and escaped clear with his winnings”?

(see the answer key)

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