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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. 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) William Waters.
(b) Mr. Myers.
(c) Mr. MacDonald.
(d) Rutherford B. Hayes.

2. 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) L.T. Quinn.
(b) Jerry Vick.
(c) Mr. James.
(d) Emmett Quincy.

3. 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) Tennessee.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Illinois.

4. Rooster Cogburn lives in a small room in back of what in Chapter 3?
(a) Chinese grocery store.
(b) The town library.
(c) A church.
(d) A funeral home.

5. The sheriff tells Mattie in Chapter 2 that the reason he’s not hunting for Tom Chaney is because he has no authority where and that now Chaney is the business of the U.S. marshals?
(a) The Indian Nation.
(b) In a National Park.
(c) Hot Spring County.
(d) The State of Texas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Mattie’s father killed, according to the narrative in Chapter 1?

3. Mattie says in Chapter 3, “About the only outlaws in our country who ever went to Federal Court were "moonshiners" like” who?

4. Mattie sees that Yarnell wants to attend the hanging, so she tells him that they’ll go but won’t tell whom in Chapter 2?

5. What is Mattie served for breakfast by Mrs. Floyd in the beginning of Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the last words of the first man executed in Chapter 2?

2. What agreement do Mattie Ross and Colonel Stonehill reach regarding their settlement in Chapter 3?

3. How is the narrative of True Grit related? Is the story told in first, second or third person? In what tense is the story told?

4. How does Mattie describe the city of Fort Smith upon her arrival in Chapter 2?

5. How does the sheriff describe L.T. Quinn in Chapter 2?

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

7. What does Mattie say in regards to the innocence or evil of animals in Chapter 3?

8. How is Yarnell Poindexter described in the novel? Why does he accompany Mattie in Chapter 1?

9. How does Mattie describe the setting of the hanging in Chapter 2?

10. How does Mattie describe Stonehill’s stock barn in Chapter 3?

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