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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Black Bark in Winter".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What contest do Ada and Ruby have one night in the chapter, In Place of the Truth?
(a) A milking competition.
(b) A horse riding competition.
(c) A story writing competition.
(d) A hair braiding competition.

2. What map does Inman follow on the next leg of his journey in the chapter, The Doing of It?
(a) A map given to him by Lila.
(b) A map given to him by the yellow slave.
(c) A map given to him by Veasey.
(d) A map given to him by the Federals.

3. Who attacks Inman as he leaves the area where the settlement was?
(a) Two men and a prostitute.
(b) Two men and a blacksmith.
(c) Two women and a shopkeeper.
(d) Two women and a blacksmith.

4. Where does Inman wake in the opening scene of The Shadow of a Crow?
(a) A military camp.
(b) A cabin in the woods.
(c) A military hospital.
(d) A farm near Cold Mountain.

5. What does Ada use to construct the item Ruby has told her to create?
(a) A peice of coal.
(b) An old ball gown.
(c) An old cart.
(d) Lard from the hog killed earlier in the year.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Ruby and Ada dress as they set out to find and bury the bodies of Stobrod and Pangle?

2. What confession does the person Inman meets at Deep River make?

3. Why did Monroe not marry Ada's mother when they were both younger?

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

5. How many people were originally in the grief stricken mother's family that Inman meets in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

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