1. Why does Ada decide not to return to Charleston after her father's death?
(a) Ada feels Cold Mountain is the only place where she belongs.
(b) Ada does not like her relatives in Charleston.
(c) Ada has bad memories of her childhood in Charleston.
(d) Ada feels she has nothing to go back to.

2. Why does Inman's progress begin to slow in the chapter, The Doing of It?
(a) Inman is beginning to doubt his decision to walk away from his committment to the army and is considering returning.
(b) Inman is injured, both from a wound to the head and the wound in his neck from the war battle.
(c) Inman has contracted an illness in his chest, is running a fever, and is delirious.
(d) Inman has begun to starve to death and the malnutrition is making him so sick he cannot walk very well.

3. What does this person who joins Inman in the chapter, Exile and Brute Wandering, tell Inman about what happened to him after their last meeting?
(a) That he was fighting the Federals but decided to return home.
(b) That he was robbed of all his possessions and decided to move on.
(c) That he was forced out of the Home Guard for being too brutal.
(d) That the townspeople beat him and cut his hair.

4. Who is Sara, a woman Inman meets in the chapter, Bride Bed Full of Blood?
(a) A war widow.
(b) The defiled companion of a preacher.
(c) An old girlfriend of Veasey's.
(d) A hermit woman.

5. Who comes to Black Cove as Ada and Ruby ready the winter garden?
(a) The Home Guard.
(b) The Federals.
(c) A group of women and children fleeing the Federals in Tennessee.
(d) A group of deserters from Fredricksburg.