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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Life Any Other Thing, a Gift".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ada find in the basement of her house?
(a) A nest of rats.
(b) A stack of rare books.
(c) A case of champagne.
(d) A one-hundred pound bag of coffee.

2. What does Inman take with him when he leaves the hospital at the end of the first chapter?
(a) Inman takes a book and money he took from his neighbor who has died.
(b) Inman takes his readied haversack and a picture he admired that belonged to his now dead neighbor.
(c) Inman takes nothing but a change of clothes.
(d) Inman takes his readied haversack and the manuscript Balis was working on.

3. Where does Inman wake in the opening scene of The Shadow of a Crow?
(a) A cabin in the woods.
(b) A military camp.
(c) A farm near Cold Mountain.
(d) A military hospital.

4. Why does Ruby come to Black Cove?
(a) Ruby wants to buy Ada's animals.
(b) Ruby wants to offer her services to Ada.
(c) Ruby wants to befriend Ada.
(d) Ruby wants to buy Black Cove.

5. Who does Inman write a letter to at the end of the first chapter?
(a) Inman writes a letter to the girl he met the summer he spent in the woods attempting to learn the Cherokee ways.
(b) Inman writes a letter to the girl who sat on his lap four years ago.
(c) Inman writes a letter to his brother.
(d) Inman writes a letter to his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Inman do with the preacher?

2. What did Ada's father often preach about during church services?

3. Why did Ada's father choose Cold Mountain over a spa or other appropriate situation?

4. What does Inman do to help Laura?

5. Where does Ruby live while helping Ada at Black Cove?

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