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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Inman and his riding companion run into as they attempt to navigate the forest after leaving the abandoned village?
(a) A group of marauders.
(b) The Home Guard.
(c) The Federals.
(d) A Confederate army unit.

2. Who rides up and begins asking Strobrod and Pangle questions?
(a) Some Federals.
(b) An Indian scout.
(c) A Confederate scout.
(d) The Home Guard led by Teague.

3. What do these men want to know about?
(a) Where Inman might be.
(b) What unit Stobrod and Pangle are with.
(c) The band of outliers robbing rich slavers.
(d) Where the nearest town is.

4. Why has Inman begun to fast as he reaches Cold Mountain?
(a) So he will die quickly if Ada refuses him.
(b) So he can enjoy a huge feast when he finds Ada.
(c) So he can cross the portal at Shining Rock if Ada refuses him.
(d) So he will be skinny and handsome for Ada.

5. What does Inman read to Ada while she makes dinner after his arrival?
(a) A passage from Balis's Greek translation.
(b) A passage from the Bible.
(c) A letter he intended to send her.
(d) A passage from Bertram that is highly sexual.

6. What does the leader of these men order be done with Stobrod and Pangle after they get the answers they needed?
(a) He orders them arrested.
(b) He orders them shot.
(c) He orders them hung.
(d) He orders that they be allowed to go free.

7. What does Ruby find in the trap she set in the cornfield?
(a) A raccoon.
(b) Her father.
(c) A Federal.
(d) A squirrel.

8. What does Inman dream about in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) That he has been killed in battle.
(b) That he has become a bear and is shot and skinned by hunters.
(c) That he returns to Sara and becomes her husband.
(d) That he has returned to Cold Mountain to find Ada married to another man.

9. Who comes to visit while Ada is at Black Cove alone in the chapter, A Satisfied Mind?
(a) Henry.
(b) Inman.
(c) Stobrod.
(d) Brice.

10. What do Ruby and Ada allow the messenger to do as they leave?
(a) To take their horse to escape the area.
(b) To sleep in the house until they return.
(c) To take a few chickens when he leaves.
(d) To sleep in the hayloft until dark.

11. What do Ruby and Ada find when they arrive at Stobrod's camp?
(a) Both Stobrod and Pangle dead where they were shot.
(b) Pangle dead, but Stobrod still alive.
(c) Neither Stobrod or Pangle.
(d) Stobrod dead, but Pangle still alive.

12. What does Inman discover as he stops to fill a canteen in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) An Indian cairn.
(b) Two skeletons being ravaged by a bear.
(c) Three skeletons hanging from a tree.
(d) An abandoned wagon train.

13. Why does Inman's progress begin to slow in the chapter, The Doing of It?
(a) Inman is beginning to doubt his decision to walk away from his committment to the army and is considering returning.
(b) Inman has begun to starve to death and the malnutrition is making him so sick he cannot walk very well.
(c) Inman is injured, both from a wound to the head and the wound in his neck from the war battle.
(d) Inman has contracted an illness in his chest, is running a fever, and is delirious.

14. What noise attracts Inman to Ada and Ruby's camp?
(a) Ruby's yelling.
(b) Ruby's riffle.
(c) Ada's shotgun shots.
(d) Ada's screams.

15. How did this person get his nickname?
(a) He was nearly beaten to death with a short, straight piece of wood.
(b) He was expected to have been a girl.
(c) He once broke an expensive vase.
(d) He was married to a woman named Inna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sara agree to launder and mend Inman's clothes?

2. Where do Ruby and Ada spend the night as they set out to find Stobrod and Pangle?

3. How does Ruby react to Inman's eventual arrival?

4. What decision does Inman make about his outlier status?

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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