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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) 480.
(b) 320.
(c) 640.
(d) 160.

2. How old does Mattie describe Tom Chaney as being in Chapter 1?
(a) 25.
(b) 22.
(c) 19.
(d) 17.

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

4. What is Mattie served for breakfast by Mrs. Floyd in the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Omelets and trout.
(b) Grits and an egg.
(c) Oatmeal and berries.
(d) Pancakes and bacon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Mattie’s father killed, according to the narrative in Chapter 1?

3. Mattie says in Chapter 3 that Judge Parker died of dropsy in what year?

4. According to Mattie in Chapter 1, her father was wounded in battle in the “terrible fight at Chickamauga up in the state of” what?

5. What is described as the highest point in Arkansas in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mattie say in regards to the innocence or evil of animals in Chapter 3?

2. How do Mattie and Yarnell travel to Fort Smith in Chapter 2? How is the journey described?

3. How is the narrative of True Grit related? Is the story told in first, second or third person? In what tense is the story told?

4. What is the principle setting of the story? Where does Mattie’s family live?

5. How does Mattie describe the career of Judge Isaac Parker in Chapter 3?

6. What was stolen from Mattie Ross’s father when he was killed?

7. How does Mattie describe Stonehill’s stock barn in Chapter 3?

8. How does Mattie describe the setting of the hanging in Chapter 2?

9. How is Judge Isaac Parker’s appearance and demeanor described when he enters in Chapter 3?

10. How is Yarnell Poindexter described in the novel? Why does he accompany Mattie in Chapter 1?

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