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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Inman hope Ada's reaction will be when she sees him?
(a) Inman hopes Ada will have a fresh meal waiting.
(b) Inman hopes Ada will joke with him.
(c) Inman hopes Ada will welcome him with open arms.
(d) Inman hopes Ada will have a great many stories to tell him.

2. What causes one of these men to believe Stobrod and Pangle are holy men?
(a) Their Bibles.
(b) Their speeches.
(c) Their clothing.
(d) Their music.

3. What happens to the men who steal from Sara's home?
(a) Inman kills them and retrieves Sara's belongings.
(b) Sara shoots them with her husband's riffle.
(c) They run into a band of Indians who scalp them.
(d) They have an accident on their starved horses.

4. What instrument does Ada and Ruby's guest play?
(a) A banjo.
(b) A set of drums.
(c) A fiddle.
(d) A guitar.

5. What does Inman do to his companion's horse upon meeting up with another group of men?
(a) Inman forces Ruby's horse to gallop toward the approaching men.
(b) Inman forces Stobrod's horse to gallop away.
(c) Inman forces Ruby's horse to gallop in the opposite direction.
(d) Inman forces Ada's horse to stop.

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

7. What causes Stobrod and his companions to become ill in the chapter Naught and Grief?
(a) Some spoiled vegetables Ruby gave them.
(b) Cherries they stole from a local orchard.
(c) A dead doe they ate.
(d) The large amount of fruit they have been eating.

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

9. What does Ruby send Ada out to get when Stobrod wakes them with his coughing in the middle of the night?
(a) Water.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Fresh fruit.
(d) Wild Turkeys.

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

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) Neither Stobrod or Pangle.
(c) Stobrod dead, but Pangle still alive.
(d) Pangle dead, but Stobrod still alive.

12. What does Ruby do with the trapped animal from the cornfield?
(a) Gives him supplies and directions.
(b) Lets him go.
(c) Feeds him to the cows.
(d) Feeds him breakfast and threatens to shoot him if he steals from her again.

13. 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 the Federals.
(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 Lila.

14. What reason does Stobrod give for wanting to live at Black Cove?
(a) The new leader of the deserters wants him to leave.
(b) The new leader of the outliers, the deserters, wants them to rob rich slave owners.
(c) He wants to make amends to his daughter for her poor childhood.
(d) The Home Guard will never think he is a deserter if he lives on a farm in the open.

15. How does Inman attempt to find Ada?
(a) He follows a map Swimmer gave him.
(b) He follows footsteps in the snow.
(c) He follows directions given to him at Black Cove.
(d) He follows blood drops on the vegetation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Ruby and Ada about the shooting of Stobrod and Pangle?

2. What does Inman learn about this new person that leaves him feeling as though solitude might not be the answer?

3. What does Ruby instruct Ada to do while she is in town trading for beef?

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

5. Who rides up and begins asking Strobrod and Pangle questions?

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