Q 01/05

Who wrote the 1968 novel True Grit?

A) Charles Portis

B) Larry McMurtry

C) Louis L'Amour

D) Elmore Leonard

Answer · why

A) Charles Portis

Charles Portis, an Arkansas-born journalist and Korean War Marine, wrote True Grit in 1968; his other novels include Norwood (1966) and The Dog of the...

Q 02/05

In which magazine was True Grit first serialised in 1968?

A) The New Yorker

B) The Saturday Evening Post

C) Collier's Weekly

D) Harper's Magazine

Answer · why

B) The Saturday Evening Post

True Grit first appeared as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post; Simon & Schuster published the full novel in book form the same year.

Q 03/05

The novel is narrated by Mattie Ross as an elderly woman looking back on events from how far in the past?

A) A decade

B) Twenty-five years

C) A half century

D) Seventy years

Answer · why

C) A half century

Mattie, 14 during the 1870s manhunt, narrates roughly a half century later as an unmarried old woman who lost an arm to the snakebite she suffered in ...

Q 04/05

In the novel, how much money does Frank Ross take with him to buy horses on the trip where he is killed?

A) $50

B) $500

C) $1,000

D) $250

Answer · why

D) $250

He spends only $100 on the horses, and Chaney robs the body of the remaining $150 and two gold pieces.

Q 05/05

In which Arkansas county is the Ross family farm, near the town of Dardanelle?

A) Yell

B) Sebastian

C) Pope

D) Logan

Answer · why

A) Yell

Mattie later has Rooster buried in the family plot in Yell County in the 2010 film.