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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Inman dream about in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) That he returns to Sara and becomes her husband.
(b) That he has become a bear and is shot and skinned by hunters.
(c) That he has returned to Cold Mountain to find Ada married to another man.
(d) That he has been killed in battle.

2. What does Ruby do with the trapped animal from the cornfield?
(a) Lets him go.
(b) Feeds him breakfast and threatens to shoot him if he steals from her again.
(c) Feeds him to the cows.
(d) Gives him supplies and directions.

3. What do most Christians consider the fiddle, refer to it as?
(a) The Devil's Playground.
(b) The Devil's Guitar.
(c) The Devil's Box.
(d) The Devil's Instrument.

4. What does Ada hear that causes her to return to Inman?
(a) Stobrod's voice yelling for help.
(b) The distinctive sound of Inman's gun.
(c) A gun shot.
(d) Inman's voice yelling for help.

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

6. What does Ruby instruct Ada to do while she is in town trading for beef?
(a) Milk the cow.
(b) Build a scarecrow.
(c) Split logs and burn brush.
(d) Plow the fields.

7. Where do Ruby and Ada spend the night as they set out to find Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) At the home of a friend of Monroe's.
(b) In an old Indian village.
(c) In a shelter Ruby knew as a child.
(d) In an abandoned barn.

8. What do Ruby and Ada find when they arrive at Stobrod's camp?
(a) Both Stobrod and Pangle dead where they were shot.
(b) Pangle dead, but Stobrod still alive.
(c) Neither Stobrod or Pangle.
(d) Stobrod dead, but Pangle still alive.

9. What does Inman learn about this new person that leaves him feeling as though solitude might not be the answer?
(a) That solitude is boring.
(b) That she is lonesome and he would be too.
(c) That she risks death every time she does anything that could lead to injury.
(d) That solitude leads to insanity.

10. What happens to the men who steal from Sara's home?
(a) Inman kills them and retrieves Sara's belongings.
(b) They have an accident on their starved horses.
(c) Sara shoots them with her husband's riffle.
(d) They run into a band of Indians who scalp them.

11. What does Ruby find in the trap she set in the cornfield?
(a) Her father.
(b) A squirrel.
(c) A Federal.
(d) A raccoon.

12. What noise attracts Inman to Ada and Ruby's camp?
(a) Ruby's riffle.
(b) Ada's screams.
(c) Ada's shotgun shots.
(d) Ruby's yelling.

13. Where do Ada and Ruby go for the night as snow begins to threaten?
(a) To a village abandoned by the Trail of Tears.
(b) To an abandoned Indian cave.
(c) To an abandoned barn.
(d) To the same shelter they used the night before.

14. Who joins Ada and Ruby for supper as they enjoy what will most likely be their final dinner outside that fall?
(a) Veasey.
(b) Brice.
(c) Inman.
(d) Stobrod.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Ada and Ruby's guest play?

2. What reason does Stobrod give for wanting to live at Black Cove?

3. What does Inman offer to do for a grief stricken mother in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

4. Who is Pangle?

5. In the chapter, A Satisfied Mind, what does Ruby take into town to trade for beef?

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