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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 complains in Chapter 6, LaBoeuf says, “You are lucky to be traveling in a place where a spring is so handy. In my country you can ride for days and see no” what?
(a) “Ground water.”
(b) “Lakes or ponds.”
(c) “Rainstorms.”
(d) “Rivers or streams.”

2. Mattie compares the mark on Tom Chaney’s face with whose in Chapter 4?
(a) Jesus’.
(b) Noah’s.
(c) Cain’s.
(d) Moses’.

3. What food item does Mattie describe in Chapter 6 as “balls of what I would call hot-water cornbread”?
(a) Corn dodgers.
(b) Corn kabobs.
(c) Corn floppers.
(d) Corn bombers.

4. Rooster Cogburn learns from the storekeeper that Lucky Ned Pepper had been seen three days earlier where in Chapter 6?
(a) Anderson’s store.
(b) McKinley’s store.
(c) McAlester’s store.
(d) Wilson’s store.

5. About how old are the boys that are taunting the poor mule at the store in Chapter 6?
(a) 14.
(b) 17.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much snow has collected in four hours as Mattie, LaBeouf, and Rooster set out after their first night of camp in Chapter 6?

2. How many horses do one of the thieves tell Rooster Ned requested at the dugout in Chapter 6?

3. What character has been shot that is hiding out in the dugout in Chapter 6?

4. What ghost story does Mattie suggest telling around the campfire in Chapter 6?

5. Mattie tells Ranger LaBoeuf in Chapter 4 that “the good people of Arkansas do not go easy on men who abuse” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Rooster Cogburn’s response when he hears of the reward offered for Tom Chaney by the state of Texas?

2. What concerns does LaBoeuf voice about the campfire when the group first stops for the night in Chapter 6?

3. What are the boys doing outside the store when Mattie, LaBoeuf, and Rooster arrive in the beginning of Chapter 6?

4. How does Mattie describe Ranger LaBoeuf’s appearance when he arrives at the Monarch boarding house in Chapter 4?

5. What does Rooster do to the boys and mule when Mattie, LaBoeuf, and Rooster arrive at the store in Chapter 6?

6. What is Mattie’s reply when LaBoeuf asks her who she has hired to hunt down Tom Chaney in Chapter 4?

7. What does LaBoeuf say of the likelihood for the Bibbs family to pay their proposed reward in Chapter 5?

8. What does Rooster Cogburn remark about education and the lack of it when Mattie visits him in Chapter 5?

9. What does Quincy do when Moon begins to break and tell what he knows in Chapter 6? What ensues?

10. What obstacles does the snow present as Mattie, Rooster, and LaBoeuf travel in Chapter 6?

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