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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the young man who takes Ada away during the party tell her?
(a) That he wants to be president of the new Confederacy.
(b) That he wants to be a preacher one day.
(c) That he is afraid of being killed in battle.
(d) That he is in love with her.

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

3. From whom is the letter Ruby brings Ada in the chapter, In Place of the Truth?
(a) A solicitor.
(b) Thewes.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Inman.

4. What does Inman take with him when he leaves the hospital at the end of the first chapter?
(a) Inman takes a book and money he took from his neighbor who has died.
(b) Inman takes his readied haversack and the manuscript Balis was working on.
(c) Inman takes his readied haversack and a picture he admired that belonged to his now dead neighbor.
(d) Inman takes nothing but a change of clothes.

5. What is Ada looking for when she goes searching in the basement?
(a) Champagne left from a party.
(b) A rare book her father kept there.
(c) Signs of rodents.
(d) Wine she thinks her father hid there.

6. What did Ada's father often preach about during church services?
(a) Why man is burdened with free will.
(b) Why man was created.
(c) Why man is born to die.
(d) Why man is doomed to failure.

7. Why does Ruby come to Black Cove?
(a) Ruby wants to buy Black Cove.
(b) Ruby wants to befriend Ada.
(c) Ruby wants to buy Ada's animals.
(d) Ruby wants to offer her services to Ada.

8. Who tells Ada at a Christmas party that she should marry Inman?
(a) Monroe.
(b) Teague.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Sally.

9. What story does Ada recall Inman telling her?
(a) An Indian story about a tribe's inability to enter the hidden room behind Shining Rock.
(b) How Swimmer once taught him a spell called To Cause Grave Illness.
(c) An Indian story about the origins of Cold Mountain.
(d) The story of his birth and early childhood.

10. While cooking corn mash, Inman smells what downstream?
(a) Real food being cooked.
(b) That the corn is spoiled.
(c) The approach of diry, smelly men.
(d) A dead animal.

11. What skill does Ada not have that she might need to survive on her own?
(a) Ada cannot sew.
(b) Ada cannot grow vegetables.
(c) Ada cannot cook.
(d) Ada cannot milk a cow.

12. Where does a young man take Ada during this party?
(a) In a boat on the river.
(b) To an abandoned cabin.
(c) On a stroll in the woods.
(d) To the barn to see a new horse.

13. What kind of food does Inman find in the chapter Exile and Brute Wandering?
(a) Honey and catfish.
(b) Cheese and chicken.
(c) Fresh deer meat.
(d) A fresh vegetable garden.

14. How is Teague dressed?
(a) Like a soldier.
(b) Like a mountain man.
(c) Like a preacher.
(d) Like a law man.

15. What object does Ruby instruct Ada to create in the chapter, In Place of the Truth?
(a) A drawing of a heron.
(b) A scarecrow.
(c) A picnic table.
(d) A bar of soap.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruby talk extensively about as she and Ada walk into town in the chapter, Source and Root?

2. Why does a preacher believe Inman means to kill him?

3. Where did Inman meet Ada for the first time?

4. Who comes to Black Cove as Ada and Ruby ready the winter garden?

5. Why does Ada decide not to return to Charleston after her father's death?

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