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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item did Inman find on a battlefield and hide during his medical ordeal?
(a) A leather medicine bag.
(b) A Whitworth .45 riffle.
(c) A picture of an unknown woman.
(d) A LeMat's pistol.

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

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

4. What happens to Veasey and Inman after they leave the farmer's home?
(a) They are placed in a new army regiment.
(b) They are shot by the Home Guard.
(c) They are put in jail.
(d) They are forced to pledge allegiance to the Union.

5. Why does Ada decide not to return to Charleston after her father's death?
(a) Ada has bad memories of her childhood in Charleston.
(b) Ada does not like her relatives in Charleston.
(c) Ada feels she has nothing to go back to.
(d) Ada feels Cold Mountain is the only place where she belongs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ada use to construct the item Ruby has told her to create?

3. Where are the guests who visit Black Cove going?

4. Who do Ada and Ruby go to visit while in town in the chapter, Source and Root?

5. What does Inman steal while at the same time leaving money for its cost?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does Ada read to Ruby? Which character reminds Ruby of her father?

2. In what city was Ada raised and educated?

3. What surprises Ada about the circumstances of her conception and birth?

4. Who is Balis? What manuscript is he working on?

5. Why does Ada decide to sell her piano?

6. Why do three men attack Inman outside a settlement where he stops to get supplies?

7. Who does Inman dream about after seeing a dark-haired girl riding a horse?

8. Why have Ada and her father moved to Black Cove?

9. What happened to Ruby when she was only four?

10. Who attempts to seduce Inman by putting some sort of drug in his drink?

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