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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. Mattie and Ranger LaBoeuf get into an argument regarding where Tom Chaney is to be what, in Chapter 4?
(a) Buried.
(b) Hung.
(c) Shot.
(d) Married.

2. How far away is the location that Rooster Cogburn wants to go to find Ned Pepper’s band after crossing the river by the store in Chapter 6?
(a) 25 miles.
(b) 15 miles.
(c) 60 miles.
(d) 50 miles.

3. Who does Rooster Cogburn tell the boys to claim cut Mr. Simmons’s mule loose in Chapter 6?
(a) Mr. Myers.
(b) Mr. Bibbs.
(c) Mr. Burlingame.
(d) Mr. James.

4. How much money does Ranger LaBoeuf say the Governor of Texas has put up for a reward for Tom Chaney in Chapter 5?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $500.
(c) $250.
(d) $125.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Mattie and Ranger LaBoeuf get into a disagreement in Chapter 4, Mattie tells him, “I will not be” what?

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

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

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”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mattie do when Rooster Cogburn goes to grab her as they’re arguing about her going on the trip in Chapter 5?

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

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

4. What information does LaBoeuf relate to Mattie about Tom Chaney’s history in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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 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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