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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Life Any Other Thing, a Gift".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Ruby to spend the night in the woods when she is only four?
(a) She is lost in the dark.
(b) She is cornered by a mother bear protecting her cub.
(c) She becomes attached to a blackthorn tree.
(d) She is injured in a rock slide.

2. What does Inman do with the preacher?
(a) Inman leaves him alone in the woods, naked and without a weapon.
(b) Inman turns him over to the local law.
(c) Inman ties him to a tree with a confession written above him.
(d) Inman knocks him out and runs away while he is unconscious.

3. What does Ada decide to sell in order to generate some money to help them through winter?
(a) The piano.
(b) A few acres of land and the tabacco crop.
(c) The horse and some coffee.
(d) The cabriolet and the hog.

4. Who introduced Inman to Ada?
(a) Ruby.
(b) Sally Swanger.
(c) Monroe.
(d) Swimmer.

5. Which general does Inman claim he prefers?
(a) Grant.
(b) Longstreet.
(c) Lee.
(d) Davis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What income did Ada and her father live on?

2. What text is Balis, Inman's neighbor in the hospital, translating into English?

3. What is the purpose of the spell Inman speaks?

4. Why does Ruby come to Black Cove?

5. Why did Ada's father choose Cold Mountain over a spa or other appropriate situation?

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