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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what county is Dardanelle located?
(a) Hempstead County.
(b) Hot Spring County.
(c) Independence County.
(d) Yell County.

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

3. Mattie describes Rooster Cogburn as “an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of” whom, in Chapter 3?
(a) “Grover Cleveland.”
(b) “Thomas Jefferson.”
(c) “Bulldog Smith.”
(d) “Teddy Roosevelt.”

4. In his court testimony in Chapter 3, Rooster Cogburn states that he was traveling with a wagonload of criminals and how many other deputy marshals when the crime occurred?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

5. How old is Mattie Ross when she leaves home to avenge her father’s murder in the novel?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the cat where Rooster Cogburn lives in Chapter 3?

3. Mattie says in Chapter 3, “You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except” what?

4. Where did Yarnell Poindexter later become a prosperous house painter, according to Mattie in Chapter 1?

5. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father had how many acres of “good bottom land on the south bank of the Arkansas River?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the executioner in Chapter 2? How is this character described?

2. How is Judge Isaac Parker’s appearance and demeanor described when he enters in Chapter 3?

3. How was Mattie Ross’s father killed in the narrative? Where was he killed?

4. How much does Mattie pay for the embalming and coffin for her father? Why does this distress Yarnell?

5. How do Mattie and Yarnell travel to Fort Smith in Chapter 2? How is the journey described?

6. How are the prisoners described that are to be hung in Chapter 2?

7. How does Colonel Stonehill describe the plight of the U.S. marshal when he hears of Mattie’s story in Chapter 3?

8. What is revealed of Rooster Cogburn during the trial in Chapter 3?

9. How does Mattie describe the scene when she arrives at the Federal Courthouse to seek out Rooster Cogburn in Chapter 3? Who is being brought in?

10. What is the principle setting of the story? Where does Mattie’s family live?

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