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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 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 that they be allowed to go free.
(c) He orders them hung.
(d) He orders them shot.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ada hear that causes her to return to Inman?

2. What does Inman discover as he stops to fill a canteen in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

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

4. What happens to the mother bear that is attempting to protect her cub from Inman?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who helps Inman with his injuries?

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

9. What do Ada and Ruby find when they come to Stobrod's camp?

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

(see the answer keys)

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