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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men does Rooster Cogburn claim to have killed in his years as a U.S. marshal in Chapter 3?
(a) 35.
(b) 23.
(c) 58.
(d) 14.

2. How much does Mattie pay to stay at the Monarch boarding house per night in Chapter 2?
(a) 90 cents.
(b) 25 cents.
(c) 45 cents.
(d) 75 cents.

3. Mattie states in Chapter 1 that Tom Chaney said he was from where?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Utah.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Georgia.

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

5. What is the name of the cat where Rooster Cogburn lives in Chapter 3?
(a) Admiral Forest Jacobs.
(b) General Sterling Price.
(c) Governor Al Smith.
(d) Corporal Jack Bartle.

6. 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.

7. When Mattie sends Yarnell back with her father’s body in Chapter 2, she tells him to have who put the body in a better coffin?
(a) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(b) Mr. Myers.
(c) Mr. MacDonald.
(d) William Waters.

8. What is the name of the hangman in Chapter 2?
(a) Farrell Permalee.
(b) Mr. Spotted-Gourd.
(c) George Maledon.
(d) William Waters.

9. Mattie says in Chapter 3 that Judge Parker died of dropsy in what year?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1896.

10. What lawyer’s name does Mattie threaten Colonel Stonehill with in Chapter 3?
(a) Lawyer T. Emmett Quincy.
(b) Lawyer J. Noble Daggett.
(c) Lawyer D. Farrell Permalee.
(d) Lawyer M. Owen Hardy.

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

12. In his court testimony in Chapter 3, Rooster Cogburn states that who was killed?
(a) Mr. James.
(b) Mr. Spotted-Gourd.
(c) Governor Al Smith.
(d) John Wesley Hardin.

13. The sheriff tells Mattie in Chapter 2 that they think Tom Chaney was in with whose party that robbed a mail hack?
(a) L.T. Quinn’s party.
(b) Bloody Bill Anderson’s party.
(c) Mr. Bloodworth’s party.
(d) Lucky Ned Pepper’s party.

14. 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) Idaho.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Oklahoma.

15. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father was wounded in battle in the “terrible fight at Chickamauga up in the state of” what?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how old does Mattie describe Rooster Cogburn as in Chapter 3?

2. Why did Papa take “it in his head to go to Fort Smith” after the last of the cotton was sold, according to Mattie in Chapter 1?

3. What animals does Mattie say in Chapter 3 are “all wicked, though often useful”?

4. What kind of gun does Mattie describe Tom Chaney carrying in Chapter 1?

5. Mattie learns at the Federal Courthouse in Chapter 3 that the head marshal has gone where to deliver prisoners to the house of correction?

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