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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what initials are the railroad tracks called that Mattie, LaBoeuf, and Rooster Cogburn are headed toward in Chapter 6?
(a) M. K. & T.
(b) R. D. & S.
(c) A. T. & J.
(d) T. B. & Y.

2. What does Rooster Cogburn do to the boys that were taunting the mule in Chapter 6?
(a) He spanks them.
(b) He pours a spittoon on them.
(c) He throws mule dung at them.
(d) He kicks them into the mud.

3. According to Mattie in Chapter 5, “Papa would not own a horse with more than one” what?
(a) “Color.”
(b) “White leg.”
(c) “Eyeball.”
(d) “Sibling.”

4. Why does Rooster Cogburn arrange in a lariat around his bed in Chapter 6?
(a) To scare off mice.
(b) To reflect the moonlight.
(c) To confuse the ants.
(d) To thwart off snakes.

5. Mattie compares the mark on Tom Chaney’s face with whose in Chapter 4?
(a) Moses’.
(b) Cain’s.
(c) Noah’s.
(d) Jesus’.

6. What ghost story does Mattie suggest telling around the campfire in Chapter 6?
(a) “The Curse of Dracula.”
(b) “The Lost Children.”
(c) “The Midnight Caller.”
(d) “The Old Mummy.”

7. Who is the first person Rooster Cogburn recognizes hiding in the dugout in Chapter 6?
(a) Lucky Ned Pepper.
(b) George Garrett.
(c) L.T. Quinn.
(d) Emmett Quincy.

8. What does LaBoeuf do when he ambushes Mattie at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) He quotes the bible.
(b) He yells at her.
(c) He spits on her.
(d) He whips her.

9. Colonel Stonehill tells Mattie in Chapter 5 that Rooster Cogburn “rode by the light of the moon with Quantrill and” who?
(a) John Wesley Hardin.
(b) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(c) Bloody Bill Anderson.
(d) Mr. Spotted-Gourd.

10. 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?
(a) Wolfgang or the Banker.
(b) For Substance or Money.
(c) Bess Galloway’s Disappointment.
(d) One of the Pack.

11. In Mattie’s letter from Lawyer Daggett in Chapter 5, he relates that who is “still away on his deer hunt”?
(a) William Waters.
(b) Bloody Bill Anderson.
(c) Rooster Cogburn.
(d) Mr. MacDonald.

12. Who does Moon say his brother is in Chapter 6?
(a) Lawyer J. Noble Daggett.
(b) Mr. MacDonald.
(c) Judge Isaac Parker.
(d) George Garrett.

13. Ranger LaBoeuf tells Mattie that Tom Chaney’s real name is what in Chapter 4?
(a) Emmett Quincy.
(b) Theron Chelmsford.
(c) Owen Hardy.
(d) Sterling Price.

14. Mattie says in Chapter 4, “I can remember when half the old ladies in the country were” what?
(a) “Dopeheads.”
(b) “Drunkards.”
(c) “Witches.”
(d) “Gossipers.”

15. Ranger LaBoeuf tells Mattie in Chapter 4, “Now I am of a mind to give you” what?
(a) “Five or six good licks with my belt.”
(b) “A toss in the river.”
(c) “A crack with my whip.”
(d) “A bottle of whiskey.”

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does Mattie go to the stock barn and exchange her release for the cash from Colonel Stonehill in Chapter 5?

2. Who does Rooster Cogburn say “helps us on timber cases and them clerks is used to seeing his name” in Chapter 5?

3. Rooster Cogburn asks one of the boys at the store in Chapter 6 where who is?

4. Of whom does Mattie say in Chapter 4, that she knows he “is ‘wet’ but that is because of his race and religion and he is not personally accountable for that”?

5. Who does Rooster Cogburn tell the boys to claim cut Mr. Simmons’s mule loose in Chapter 6?

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