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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. Who does Rooster Cogburn tell Mattie is “fixing the eats” for their trip in Chapter 5?
(a) Potter’s wife.
(b) Mattie’s mother.
(c) Victoria.
(d) Grandma Turner.

2. How much snow has collected in four hours as Mattie, LaBeouf, and Rooster set out after their first night of camp in Chapter 6?
(a) 2-3 inches.
(b) 10-11 inches.
(c) 12-14 inches.
(d) 6-7 inches.

3. What does Rooster Cogburn have for a ground sheet when they make camp in Chapter 6?
(a) A grass mat.
(b) A bearskin rug.
(c) A buffalo robe.
(d) A canvas tarp.

4. What ailment does Colonel Stonehill say is “making its annual visitation” in Chapter 5?
(a) Chicken pox.
(b) Scurvy.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Malaria.

5. Of whom does Mattie say in Chapter 4, that she knows he “is ‘wet’ but that is because of his race and religion and he is not personally accountable for that”?
(a) Governor Mike Nichols.
(b) Governor Jim Jackson.
(c) Governor James Wilson.
(d) Governor Al Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rooster Cogburn tell the boys to claim cut Mr. Simmons’s mule loose in Chapter 6?

2. How much money does Ranger LaBoeuf say the Governor of Texas has put up for a reward for Tom Chaney in Chapter 5?

3. Colonel Stonehill tells Mattie in Chapter 5 that Rooster Cogburn “rode by the light of the moon with Quantrill and” who?

4. Rooster Cogburn asks one of the boys at the store in Chapter 6 where who is?

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. How does Mattie describe the pony she picks out to purchase at Stonehill’s barn in Chapter 5? What does she remark about his legs?

2. What is Colonel Stonehill’s demeanor like when Mattie goes to see him with the paperwork in the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. What opinions does Mattie assert regarding prohibition in Chapter 4?

4. How is the “dugout” described when Mattie, Rooster, and LaBoeuf arrive there in Chapter 6?

5. What is Rooster Cogburn’s response when Mattie asks him if he thinks President Hayes will commute Odus Wharton’s sentence in Chapter 5?

6. What reasons does Rooster Cogburn give Mattie for why she cannot accompany him on his mission in Chapter 5?

7. What information does LaBoeuf relate to Mattie about his profession and assignment in Chapter 4?

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

9. How is the photograph described that LaBoeuf shows to Mattie in Chapter 4? How does she respond?

10. What news of Lucky Ned’s gang has Rooster Cogburn learned from Bagby in Chapter 6?

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