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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Color of Despair".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vision does Ada see when Esco encourages her to look backwards down a well in a mirror?
(a) A figure running toward a river.
(b) A figure running in an open meadow.
(c) A figure walking in a corridor of trees.
(d) A figure walking in snow.

2. How does Inman attempt to cross the river?
(a) In a canoe piloted by the daughter of the ferryman.
(b) On a ferry.
(c) On a small raft someone has left abandoned.
(d) In a boat he finds tied to a tree on the shore.

3. Why does Ada decide not to return to Charleston after her father's death?
(a) Ada has bad memories of her childhood in Charleston.
(b) Ada feels Cold Mountain is the only place where she belongs.
(c) Ada does not like her relatives in Charleston.
(d) Ada feels she has nothing to go back to.

4. What book does Inman read while in the hospital?
(a) Travels by William Bartram.
(b) Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
(c) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
(d) Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

5. Where did Inman learn this spell?
(a) From his father.
(b) From Swimmer, a childhood friend.
(c) From an old, tattooed Cherokee woman.
(d) From his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What guards the farms that Inman passes in the flatlands?

2. What does the blind man sell outside the hospital?

3. What has Ada done on the farm since her father's death?

4. Which general does Inman claim he prefers?

5. What happens as Inman slowly crosses the river?

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