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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Black Bark in Winter".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Inman discover as he stops to fill a canteen in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) An abandoned wagon train.
(b) Two skeletons being ravaged by a bear.
(c) Three skeletons hanging from a tree.
(d) An Indian cairn.

2. What wish does Inman make when he lies down to sleep in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) To be alive when the sun rises.
(b) A quick end to his journey.
(c) To see Ada before he dies.
(d) For a larger moon.

3. How did this person come to compose his own music?
(a) He was inspired by his daughter.
(b) He was inspired by the death of the woman he loved.
(c) He was inspired by the death and destruction he witnessed in the war.
(d) He was inspired by a dying girl he was paid to perform for.

4. What character in the story Ada reads to Ruby does Ruby believe resembles her father?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Sir Gawain.
(c) Lancelot.
(d) Beowulf.

5. What do Ruby and Ada allow the messenger to do as they leave?
(a) To sleep in the house until they return.
(b) To take a few chickens when he leaves.
(c) To sleep in the hayloft until dark.
(d) To take their horse to escape the area.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Inman meet who is in search of a slave he fell in love with on his father's prosperous farm?

2. How does Inman attempt to cross the river?

3. Which general does Inman claim he prefers?

4. What caused Ruby to spend the night in the woods when she is only four?

5. What crime does this farmer believe his wife has committed?

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