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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. Who joins Ada and Ruby for supper as they enjoy what will most likely be their final dinner outside that fall?
(a) Brice.
(b) Stobrod.
(c) Veasey.
(d) Inman.

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

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

4. What is taken from Sara's home during the visit by the men who come to Sara's while Inman is still asleep in her bed?
(a) All her money and valuable possessions.
(b) Inman.
(c) Her infant.
(d) Three chickens and the hog.

5. How does this new person help Inman with his journey?
(a) She feeds him a hearty meal that staves off starvation.
(b) She gives him a ride back to the military hospital.
(c) She treats his wounds and gives him medication.
(d) She nurses him through his illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Ada and Ruby's guest play?

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

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

4. In the chapter, A Satisfied Mind, what does Ruby take into town to trade for beef?

5. How did this person come to compose his own music?

Short Essay Questions

1. What decision does Inman make the following morning about his future?

2. What does Inman do in exchange for a hot meal from a grief stricken mother?

3. What animal does Inman dream about and later feel responsible for killing?

4. Who attacks Sara's home while Inman is there?

5. Who or what does Ruby catch in her trap in the cornfield?

6. Who do Ruby, Ada, Stobrod, and Inman run into on their way to Black Cove?

7. What does Stobrod tell Ruby and Ada to attempt to prove that he has changed?

8. What does Inman find when he finally reaches Black Cove?

9. What has caused an illness in Stobrod and his companions?

10. Why are things awkward between Inman and Ada at first? How does this begin to change?

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