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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What income did Ada and her father live on?
2. Who joins Inman on his journey in the chapter, Exile and Brute Wandering?
3. What does Inman do with the preacher?
4. At whose house did Ada attend her final party in Charleston?
5. What happens to Veasey and Inman after they leave the farmer's home?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Inman do with a saw he and Veasey find?
2. In what city was Ada raised and educated?
3. Who is Balis? What manuscript is he working on?
4. Why did Inman decide he would like to meet Ada?
5. What group of people stop at Black Cove on their way to Camden, South Carolina?
6. What does Inman leave money for even as he steals it?
7. What happens when Inman attempts to cross a river using the canoe of a young Indian woman?
8. Why have Ada and her father moved to Black Cove?
9. Why does Ruby put a trap in the corn field? Why does Ada instruct her to pad the teeth on the trap?
10. What scene do Ada and Ruby stumble on on their way back to Black Cove?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss slavery. What is slavery? Was the Civil War about slavery? In what way? How is slavery represented in this novel? What do the main characters think of slavery? Did any of them own slaves? How did slavery affect their lives? How did the war affect their lives? How do the two things compare as far as their impact on the characters?
Essay Topic 2
Death is a theme of the novel. Why is death a theme of the novel? Why is Monroe obsessed with death? Is Monroe obsessed with his own death, or the death's of other people? How did the death of Monroe's wife affect his feelings about death? Is Inman obsessed with death? Why is Inman convinced every day will be his last?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss setting. What is significant about Cold Mountain? Why did the author chose to set his novel in this place? How do the lives of the people indigent to this area affect the plot? There are a lot of Indian legends in this area. How do those legends affect the developing plot? How would the novel be different without these legends?
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