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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie describes Rooster Cogburn as “an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of” whom, in Chapter 3?
(a) “Teddy Roosevelt.”
(b) “Bulldog Smith.”
(c) “Grover Cleveland.”
(d) “Thomas Jefferson.”

2. How much money does Colonel Stonehill agree to give Mattie after haggling with her in Chapter 3?
(a) $325.
(b) $550.
(c) $420.
(d) $175.

3. Yarnell Poindexter is described as a freeborn black man from where?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Montana.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Illinois.

4. Where has Lawyer Daggett gone to “try one of his steamboat suits” in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Kalispell.
(b) Helena.
(c) Butte.
(d) Billings.

5. Mattie tells Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 3 that her family sold their early cotton in Little Rock to whom?
(a) Woodson Brothers.
(b) Marcus Brothers.
(c) Smith and Sons.
(d) Barnes and Son.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father had how many acres of “good bottom land on the south bank of the Arkansas River?

2. What newspaper does Mattie mention that publishes a delinquent tax list every year in Chapter 3?

3. In his court testimony in Chapter 3, Rooster Cogburn states that who was killed?

4. How far does Mattie say the distance was between their family stead and Fort Smith, Arkansas, in Chapter 1?

5. What is Rooster Cogburn’s real first name in the novel?

(see the answer key)

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