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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 is Ada looking for when she goes searching in the basement?
(a) Signs of rodents.
(b) A rare book her father kept there.
(c) Champagne left from a party.
(d) Wine she thinks her father hid there.

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

3. What does Inman do with the preacher?
(a) Inman knocks him out and runs away while he is unconscious.
(b) Inman leaves him alone in the woods, naked and without a weapon.
(c) Inman turns him over to the local law.
(d) Inman ties him to a tree with a confession written above him.

4. 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 mother.
(d) Inman writes a letter to his brother.

5. What happens to Inman after he drinks some fluid Lila gave him?
(a) He falls asleep.
(b) He is unable to fight off her attempts at seduction.
(c) He becomes instantly drunk.
(d) He becomes violently ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Ruby instruct Ada to create in the chapter, In Place of the Truth?

2. What confession does the person Inman meets at Deep River make?

3. As Inman continues his journey, who does he come across who helps him?

4. What book does Inman read while in the hospital?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Inman comes across a preacher in the middle of the night. What does Inman stop the preacher from doing?

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

3. What does Ruby believe is a waste of time?

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

5. Who joins Inman on his journey in the chapter, Exile and Brute Wandering?

6. What happens when Inman attempts to cross a river using the canoe of a young Indian woman?

7. Why did Inman decide he would like to meet Ada?

8. Why have Ada and her father moved to Black Cove?

9. On her last night in Charleston, Ada went out on the lake with what person? What do they discuss?

10. What story does Ada read to Ruby? Which character reminds Ruby of her father?

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