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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the cat where Rooster Cogburn lives in Chapter 3?
(a) General Sterling Price.
(b) Admiral Forest Jacobs.
(c) Governor Al Smith.
(d) Corporal Jack Bartle.

2. In Mattie’s letter from Lawyer Daggett in Chapter 5, he relates that who was pressed into service to preach at Mattie’s father’s funeral?
(a) Mr. MacDonald.
(b) Governor Al Smith.
(c) Owen Hardy.
(d) William Waters.

3. Mattie says in Chapter 3, “You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except” what?
(a) “The Grace of God.”
(b) “The dirt we walk on.”
(c) “A mother’s love.”
(d) “The air we breathe.”

4. Regarding the trial of the Wharton man, Rooster tells Mattie in Chapter 5 that Lawyer Goudy is going to Washington to see if what President will commute the sentence?
(a) Grover Cleveland.
(b) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(c) Chester A. Arthur.
(d) James A. Garfield.

5. Approximately how much is the charge for embalming and the coffin for Mattie’s father in Chapter 2?
(a) $40.
(b) $15.
(c) $25.
(d) $60.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how old is Ranger LaBoeuf when Mattie describes his arrival in Chapter 4?

2. Colonel Stonehill tells Mattie in Chapter 5 that Rooster Cogburn “rode by the light of the moon with Quantrill and” who?

3. Where has Lawyer Daggett gone to “try one of his steamboat suits” in the beginning of Chapter 2?

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

5. Who does the sheriff describe in Chapter 2 as “a pitiless man, double-tough, and fear don't enter into his thinking”?

(see the answer key)

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