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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Waldo, mentioned in the chapter Ashes of Roses?
(a) A hog.
(b) A horse.
(c) A chicken.
(d) A cow.

3. What kind of gun does Inman's companion carry?
(a) A Remington.
(b) A Colt.
(c) A Whitworth .45 riffle.
(d) A LeMat's pistol.

4. Why is a group of people drawn to the street underneath the window of a prisoner?
(a) Because the prisoner is threatening to commit suicide.
(b) Because the prisoner is explaining how he is a war hero who only came home to see his wife.
(c) Because the prisoner is claiming police brutality.
(d) Because the prisoner is claiming that he was arrested on false charges and the real criminal is one of the policemen.

5. What is the purpose of the spell Inman speaks?
(a) To cause one's enemies to go to Nightland alone, covered in dog excrement, and blue with despair.
(b) To cause an enemy to catch a terrible, disfiguring illness.
(c) To cause an enemy to die in his sleep.
(d) To send an enemy to jail for their crimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character in the story Ada reads to Ruby does Ruby believe resembles her father?

2. What does Inman take with him when he leaves the hospital at the end of the first chapter?

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

4. Which of Teague's men argues that they need to bring in a living prisoner?

5. What does Inman steal while at the same time leaving money for its cost?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ada's father doing when he dies?

2. Who is Balis? What manuscript is he working on?

3. To whom does Inman send a letter shortly before leaving the hospital?

4. In what city was Ada raised and educated?

5. To whom does Junior sell Inman and Veasey for $5 a head?

6. What does Inman leave money for even as he steals it?

7. What does Inman learn happened to the preacher and his lover?

8. What does Junior do when he finds Inman in his wife's arms?

9. What scene do Ada and Ruby stumble on on their way back to Black Cove?

10. What does Ruby instruct Ada to create?

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