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

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

3. In the chapter, Naught and Grief, who has joined Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) A young Indian woman.
(b) A young man from Tennessee.
(c) A young man from Georgia.
(d) Pangle's cousin.

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

5. What does Ruby instruct Ada to do while she is in town trading for beef?
(a) Split logs and burn brush.
(b) Build a scarecrow.
(c) Milk the cow.
(d) Plow the fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does this new person help Inman with his journey?

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

3. What does Ada tell Inman about her relationship with Ruby?

4. What does Ruby do with the trapped animal from the cornfield?

5. How do Ruby and Ada dress as they set out to find and bury the bodies of Stobrod and Pangle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ada react when she first sees Inman? Does Ada react as Inman imagined she would?

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

3. Who visits Black Cove while Ruby is in town trading apple cider for beef?

4. Who once lived in the village that Ruby and Ada have brought Stobrod to?

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

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

7. Who comes across Stobrod and Pangle, asking them questions before lining them up in front of a tree and shooting them?

8. What does Inman learn about his new companion that leads him to a conclusion about his own future?

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

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

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