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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. What does Rooster Cogburn do to the boys that were taunting the mule in Chapter 6?
(a) He kicks them into the mud.
(b) He pours a spittoon on them.
(c) He spanks them.
(d) He throws mule dung at them.

2. Rooster Cogburn asks one of the boys at the store in Chapter 6 where who is?
(a) Toby.
(b) Reuben.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Moon.

3. What does Mattie name the pony that she buys from Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 5?
(a) Thunder.
(b) Sunrise.
(c) Little Blackie.
(d) Elijah.

4. Mattie is surprised to discover that the Indian wife of the storekeeper in Chapter 6 is of what religion?
(a) Mormon.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Presbyterian.
(d) Jewish.

5. What does Colonel Stonehill refer to Arkansas as in Chapter 5?
(a) “The Bear State.”
(b) “The Peach State.”
(c) “The Land of Lincoln.”
(d) “The Show Me State.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What Indian dish is on the fire that looks like hominy at the dugout in Chapter 6?

2. In Mattie’s letter from Lawyer Daggett in Chapter 5, he tells her that who is “down with an earache”?

3. About how old are the boys that are taunting the poor mule at the store in Chapter 6?

4. When Mattie and Ranger LaBoeuf get into a disagreement in Chapter 4, Ranger LaBoeuf tells Mattie that earlier in the night he gave some thought to stealing what from her?

5. Rooster Cogburn learns from the storekeeper that Lucky Ned Pepper had been seen three days earlier with a robber called what in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is revealed in Lawyer J. Noble Daggett’s letter to Mattie in the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. What do Mattie, LaBoeuf, and Rooster do at the store when they arrive in the beginning of Chapter 6? Who is the storekeeper?

5. What is LaBoeuf’s reply when Mattie asks him why Tom Chaney supposedly shot a Texas senator?

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

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

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

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

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

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