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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. 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.

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

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

4. What was the name of the man who kidnapped Yarnell Poindexter and brought him to Arkansas just before the war?
(a) Mr. MacDonald.
(b) Mr. Myers.
(c) Mr. James.
(d) Mr. Bloodworth.

5. What newspaper does Mattie mention that publishes a delinquent tax list every year in Chapter 3?
(a) The Houston Weekly.
(b) The Chicago Chronicle.
(c) The Arkansas Gazette.
(d) The New York Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who does Mattie share a room with at the Monarch boarding house in Chapter 2?

3. How much money does Mattie take with her when she and Yarnell go to see about her father’s body in Chapter 2?

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

5. Who does Mattie say “watched all his hangings from an upper window in the Courthouse” in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. What leads to Mattie’s disappointment when she speaks with the deputy marshal at the Federal Courthouse in Chapter 3?

10. How does Mattie Ross describe Tom Chaney in Chapter 1?

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