Where were Rooster and Mattie when he began to work on getting the poison out of her arm?

• A. They were still in the pit.
• B. They had climbed out.
• C. They were outside the pit entrance.
• D. They were in a different cave.

Answer: (B)

The situation tests your ability to track where the characters are in a moment of action. When Rooster begins to work on removing the poison from Mattie’s arm, the narrative places them after they have climbed out of the pit. That detail matter because it shows they’ve moved to a safer spot where he can attend to her wound, not while they are still trapped inside.

So the best fit is that they had climbed out. Being still in the pit, or simply outside the pit entrance, or in a different cave would place them in a different moment or location that doesn’t align with the described action of starting the treatment.