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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Mattie’s father.
(b) Mattie’s grandmother.
(c) Mattie’s brother.
(d) Mattie’s mother.

3. How much does Mattie pay to stay at the Monarch boarding house per night in Chapter 2?
(a) 25 cents.
(b) 75 cents.
(c) 45 cents.
(d) 90 cents.

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

5. In his court testimony in Chapter 3, Rooster Cogburn states that he has been a U.S. marshal for almost how many years?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

6. What is described as the highest point in Arkansas in Chapter 1?
(a) Mount Magazine.
(b) Mount McKinley.
(c) Mount Murphy.
(d) Mount Michigan.

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

8. 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) Hot Spring County.
(b) In a National Park.
(c) The Indian Nation.
(d) The State of Texas.

9. Mattie says in Chapter 3, “About the only outlaws in our country who ever went to Federal Court were "moonshiners" like” who?
(a) “Old man Jerry Vick and his boys.”
(b) “Jimmie Jackson and his crew.”
(c) “Jack Ross and the Mallory brothers.”
(d) “James Poindexter and Civil War criminals.”

10. How much cash did Tom Chaney steal from Mattie’s father in addition to the gold coins?
(a) $115.
(b) $55.
(c) $150.
(d) $80.

11. What month was it “when the last of the cotton was sold” in Chapter 1?
(a) February.
(b) May.
(c) September.
(d) November.

12. Rooster Cogburn lives in a small room in back of what in Chapter 3?
(a) A funeral home.
(b) A church.
(c) Chinese grocery store.
(d) The town library.

13. How long does the Indian struggle before he dies in the hanging in Chapter 2?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 5 minutes.

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

15. What kind of gun does Mattie describe Tom Chaney carrying in Chapter 1?
(a) A Mossberg shotgun.
(b) A Remington revolver.
(c) A Henry rifle.
(d) A Winchester rifle.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how old does Mattie describe Rooster Cogburn as in Chapter 3?

2. What was the name of the man who kidnapped Yarnell Poindexter and brought him to Arkansas just before the war?

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

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

5. What is Mattie served for breakfast by Mrs. Floyd in the beginning of Chapter 3?

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