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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. Where does Mattie say her father took her and her brother coon hunting last summer in Chapter 5?
(a) Petit Jean Mountain.
(b) Great Cypress Swamp.
(c) The Missouri River.
(d) The Mississippi River.

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

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

4. How does Mattie get across the river when she has been barred from the ferry in Chapter 5?
(a) She borrows a boat.
(b) She crosses a bridge upstream.
(c) She swims.
(d) She rides across on her horse.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Mattie give the night watchman at Colonel Stonehill’s barn to feed her horse and wake her before sunrise in Chapter 5?

2. Ranger LaBoeuf tells Mattie in Chapter 4 that she is “very young” and what to boot?

3. Mattie compares the mark on Tom Chaney’s face with whose in Chapter 4?

4. Rooster Cogburn learns from the storekeeper that Lucky Ned Pepper had been seen three days earlier where in Chapter 6?

5. When Mattie and Ranger LaBoeuf get into a disagreement in Chapter 4, Ranger LaBoeuf tells Mattie that earlier in the night he gave some thought to stealing what from her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Rooster Cogburn’s response when Mattie asks him if he thinks President Hayes will commute Odus Wharton’s sentence in Chapter 5?

2. What are the boys doing outside the store when Mattie, LaBoeuf, and Rooster arrive in the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. How does Mattie describe Ranger LaBoeuf’s appearance when he arrives at the Monarch boarding house in Chapter 4?

4. What book does Mattie describe reading to Grandma Turner while she’s sick in Chapter 4?

5. How does Mrs. Floyd treat Mattie when she becomes sick in Chapter 4?

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

7. What do Mattie, LaBoeuf, and Rooster do at the store when they arrive in the beginning of Chapter 6? Who is the storekeeper?

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

9. What does LaBoeuf say of the likelihood for the Bibbs family to pay their proposed reward in Chapter 5?

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

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