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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stock trader does Mattie’s father go to see in Fort Smith in Chapter 1?
(a) Rooster Cogburn.
(b) Mr. MacDonald.
(c) Bloody Bill Anderson.
(d) Colonel Stonehill.

2. What is Mattie’s sister’s name in the novel?
(a) Mary.
(b) Victoria.
(c) Veronica.
(d) Melanie.

3. Where has Lawyer Daggett gone to “try one of his steamboat suits” in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Butte.
(b) Helena.
(c) Kalispell.
(d) Billings.

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

5. How far does Mattie say the distance was between their family stead and Fort Smith, Arkansas, in Chapter 1?
(a) 70 miles.
(b) 120 miles.
(c) 25 miles.
(d) 45 miles.

6. What song does the preacher lead the men about to be hung in as Mattie watches in Chapter 2?
(a) Saving Grace.
(b) Amazing Grace.
(c) End of the Road.
(d) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.

7. Approximately how much is the charge for embalming and the coffin for Mattie’s father in Chapter 2?
(a) $60.
(b) $25.
(c) $15.
(d) $40.

8. What was the name of Mattie’s father?
(a) Jacob Ross.
(b) Alfred Ross.
(c) Matthew Ross.
(d) Frank Ross.

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

10. Mattie tells Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 3 that her family sold their early cotton in Little Rock to whom?
(a) Woodson Brothers.
(b) Marcus Brothers.
(c) Barnes and Son.
(d) Smith and Sons.

11. Around how many people have gathered to attend the hanging in Chapter 2?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 10,000.

12. Mattie says in Chapter 2, “I thought then and still think that Fort Smith ought to be in” what state, as opposed to Arkansas?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Idaho.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) Wyoming.

13. 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) 640.
(b) 480.
(c) 320.
(d) 160.

14. 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) Emmett Quincy.
(c) Rooster Cogburn.
(d) George Maledon.

15. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father was a church member where?
(a) Marion Catholic.
(b) Crawford Unitarian.
(c) Ouachita Orthodox.
(d) Cumberland Presbyterian.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much cash did Tom Chaney steal from Mattie’s father in addition to the gold coins?

2. What newspaper does Mattie mention that publishes a delinquent tax list every year in Chapter 3?

3. Mattie describes the undertaker that she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body as being what in Chapter 2?

4. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father was wounded in battle in the “terrible fight at Chickamauga up in the state of” what?

5. How much money does Colonel Stonehill agree to give Mattie after haggling with her in Chapter 3?

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