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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Footsteps in the Snow".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Ruby and Ada do when these visitors surprise them at Black Cove while they are preparing the winter garden?
(a) Run away and hide.
(b) Offer up their money and a few animals for food.
(c) Cowar as the visitors raid their supplies.
(d) Feed them a chicken dinner and give them supplies.

2. Who comes to Black Cove as Ada and Ruby ready the winter garden?
(a) The Home Guard.
(b) A group of deserters from Fredricksburg.
(c) A group of women and children fleeing the Federals in Tennessee.
(d) The Federals.

3. What do Ruby and Ada have in common?
(a) They are both well educated.
(b) They were both raised without mothers.
(c) They are both rich, spoiled young women.
(d) They are both orphans.

4. In the chapter, A Satisfied Mind, what does Ruby take into town to trade for beef?
(a) Ralph, the horse.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Freshly made apple cider.
(d) Waldo, the cow.

5. Where did a man see a black woman placed in a cage and left for the buzzards to torment?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Inman begun to fast as he reaches Cold Mountain?

2. What did Ada later learn happened to this young man who spent time alone with her during her final party in Charleston?

3. What type of animal does the new person Inman meets in the chapter, The Doing of It, raise?

4. Who saves Inman's companion from being shot in a standoff with a drunk?

5. Who joins Inman on his journey in the chapter, Exile and Brute Wandering?

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