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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. How far away is the location that Rooster Cogburn wants to go to find Ned Pepper’s band after crossing the river by the store in Chapter 6?
(a) 25 miles.
(b) 50 miles.
(c) 60 miles.
(d) 15 miles.

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

3. 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 whips her.
(d) He spits on her.

4. When Mattie and Ranger LaBoeuf get into a disagreement in Chapter 4, Mattie tells him, “I will not be” what?
(a) “Lied to.”
(b) “Corrected.”
(c) “Bullied.”
(d) “Embarrassed.”

5. When Mattie is sick in Chapter 4, Mrs. Floyd wraps a rag around her neck that has been soaked in what?
(a) Vick’s salve.
(b) Turpentine.
(c) Mint leaves.
(d) Whiskey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mattie get across the river when she has been barred from the ferry in Chapter 5?

2. Where does Mattie say her father took her and her brother coon hunting last summer in Chapter 5?

3. When Mattie complains in Chapter 6, LaBoeuf says, “You are lucky to be traveling in a place where a spring is so handy. In my country you can ride for days and see no” what?

4. When Mattie is sick in Chapter 4, Mrs. Floyd gives her what medication?

5. Of Mrs. Floyd, Mattie says in Chapter 5 that she “could no more keep her mouth closed than can a” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What obstacles does the snow present as Mattie, Rooster, and LaBoeuf travel in Chapter 6?

2. What is Colonel Stonehill’s demeanor like when Mattie goes to see him with the paperwork in the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. What opinions does Mattie assert regarding prohibition in Chapter 4?

4. How is the “dugout” described when Mattie, Rooster, and LaBoeuf arrive there in Chapter 6?

5. What does Rooster Cogburn remark about education and the lack of it when Mattie visits him in Chapter 5?

6. What “grub” has Rooster Cogburn brought along for the trip, according to Mattie in Chapter 6?

7. What is revealed in Lawyer J. Noble Daggett’s letter to Mattie in the beginning of Chapter 5?

8. What does Mattie do when Rooster Cogburn goes to grab her as they’re arguing about her going on the trip in Chapter 5?

9. What is LaBoeuf’s reply when Mattie asks him why Tom Chaney supposedly shot a Texas senator?

10. How is the photograph described that LaBoeuf shows to Mattie in Chapter 4? How does she respond?

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