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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. How does Inman attempt to find Ada?

2. Where do Ada and Ruby go for the night as snow begins to threaten?

3. How many people were originally in the grief stricken mother's family that Inman meets in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

4. What type of animal does the new person Inman meets in the chapter, The Doing of It, raise?

5. Who comes to visit while Ada is at Black Cove alone in the chapter, A Satisfied Mind?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who helps Inman with his injuries?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Ruby? What kind of education does Ruby have? Where does Ruby come from? How are Ruby and Ada similar? How are they different? Why does Ruby come to live at Black Cove? What does Ruby want to do there? What does Ruby do there? How does Ruby impact Ada's life? Is this for the better? How?

Essay Topic 2

What lesson is Inman repeatedly told to learn? Why? Why do people ask this of Inman? What do they hope he will learn from this lesson? Does Inman learn this lesson? What does this lesson teach Inman?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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