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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "To Live Like a Gamecock".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who saves Inman's companion from being shot in a standoff with a drunk?
(a) The barkeeper.
(b) A prostitute named Tildy.
(c) The local sheriff.
(d) Inman.

2. What does the blind man sell outside the hospital?
(a) Chestnuts and drawings.
(b) Bibles and hot dogs.
(c) Medicine and peanuts.
(d) Peanuts and newspapers.

3. 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 his mother.
(c) Inman writes a letter to his brother.
(d) Inman writes a letter to the girl who sat on his lap four years ago.

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

5. What kind of food does Inman find in the chapter Exile and Brute Wandering?
(a) A fresh vegetable garden.
(b) Cheese and chicken.
(c) Honey and catfish.
(d) Fresh deer meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the farmer sell Inman and Veasey to for $5 a head?

2. Where did a man see a black woman placed in a cage and left for the buzzards to torment?

3. What does Inman do to the farmer who sold him and Veasey?

4. Who is Swimmer and why does Inman think about him after reading the news?

5. Who is Ruby's father?

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