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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the sheriff name as the best tracker and a half-breed Comanche in Chapter 2?
(a) William Waters.
(b) Rooster Cogburn.
(c) Little Frank.
(d) George Garrett.

2. The sheriff tells Mattie in Chapter 2 that the reason he’s not hunting for Tom Chaney is because he has no authority where and that now Chaney is the business of the U.S. marshals?
(a) In a National Park.
(b) Hot Spring County.
(c) The State of Texas.
(d) The Indian Nation.

3. Who does Mattie say “watched all his hangings from an upper window in the Courthouse” in Chapter 2?
(a) Governor Al Smith.
(b) Mr. Burlingame.
(c) George Garrett.
(d) Judge Isaac Parker.

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

5. Colonel Stonehill says in Chapter 3, “They told me this town was the be the” what of “the Southwest”?
(a) “Memphis.”
(b) “Pittsburgh.”
(c) “Buffalo.”
(d) “Chicago.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Papa take “it in his head to go to Fort Smith” after the last of the cotton was sold, according to Mattie in Chapter 1?

2. What book does Mattie read to Grandma Turner that’s about “a girl in England who could not make up her mind whether to marry a rich man with a pack of dogs named Alec or a preacher” in Chapter 4?

3. Mattie says in Chapter 3 that Judge Parker died of dropsy in what year?

4. What lawyer’s name does Mattie threaten Colonel Stonehill with in Chapter 3?

5. What was the name of Mattie’s father?

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