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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mattie sends Yarnell back with her father’s body in Chapter 2, she tells him to have who put the body in a better coffin?
(a) Mr. MacDonald.
(b) Mr. Myers.
(c) William Waters.
(d) Rutherford B. Hayes.

2. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, Yarnell Poindexter later died in the flu epidemic of what year?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1897.

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

4. What was the name of Mattie’s father?
(a) Alfred Ross.
(b) Matthew Ross.
(c) Jacob Ross.
(d) Frank Ross.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The gold pieces that Mattie’s father carried in his clothes were a wedding gift from Mattie’s grandfather named what?

2. Mattie describes Rooster Cogburn as “an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of” whom, in Chapter 3?

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

4. What kind of gun does Mattie describe Tom Chaney carrying in Chapter 1?

5. Mattie sees that Yarnell wants to attend the hanging, so she tells him that they’ll go but won’t tell whom in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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