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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie learns at the Federal Courthouse in Chapter 3 that the head marshal has gone where to deliver prisoners to the house of correction?
(a) Detroit, Michigan.
(b) Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2. What is Mattie served for breakfast by Mrs. Floyd in the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Grits and an egg.
(b) Pancakes and bacon.
(c) Omelets and trout.
(d) Oatmeal and berries.

3. 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) 320.
(b) 640.
(c) 160.
(d) 480.

4. Mattie claims in Chapter 3, “Papa used to say that the only friends we had down here right after the war were” whom?
(a) “The carpetbagger Republicans.”
(b) “The English Republicans in Chicago.”
(c) “The Irish Democrats in New York.”
(d) “The Indians and the cowboys.”

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

6. How much money does Mattie take with her when she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body in Chapter 2?
(a) $40.
(b) $100.
(c) $60.
(d) $25.

7. How much money does Colonel Stonehill agree to give Mattie after haggling with her in Chapter 3?
(a) $550.
(b) $175.
(c) $420.
(d) $325.

8. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, Yarnell Poindexter later died in the flu epidemic of what year?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1897.

9. How long does the Indian struggle before he dies in the hanging in Chapter 2?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 5 minutes.

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

11. How much money does Mattie tell Colonel Stonehill that she wants for “Papa’s saddle horse that was stolen” in Chapter 3?
(a) $200.
(b) $500.
(c) $100.
(d) $300.

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

13. Colonel Stonehill says in Chapter 3, “They told me this town was the be the” what of “the Southwest”?
(a) “Buffalo.”
(b) “Chicago.”
(c) “Memphis.”
(d) “Pittsburgh.”

14. 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”?
(a) Emmett Quincy.
(b) L.T. Quinn.
(c) Jerry Vick.
(d) Mr. James.

15. How old does Mattie describe Tom Chaney as being in Chapter 1?
(a) 19.
(b) 25.
(c) 17.
(d) 22.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rooster Cogburn’s real first name in the novel?

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

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

4. Where has Lawyer Daggett gone to “try one of his steamboat suits” in the beginning of Chapter 2?

5. Mattie tells Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 3 that her family sold their early cotton in Little Rock to whom?

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