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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. How does Inman attempt to find Ada?
(a) He follows blood drops on the vegetation.
(b) He follows footsteps in the snow.
(c) He follows directions given to him at Black Cove.
(d) He follows a map Swimmer gave him.

2. 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 risks death every time she does anything that could lead to injury.
(c) That solitude leads to insanity.
(d) That she is lonesome and he would be too.

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

4. What is taken from Sara's home during the visit by the men who come to Sara's while Inman is still asleep in her bed?
(a) Three chickens and the hog.
(b) All her money and valuable possessions.
(c) Inman.
(d) Her infant.

5. Why does Sara agree to launder and mend Inman's clothes?
(a) In payment for him slaughtering her hog.
(b) In payment for food Inman gives her.
(c) In payment for repairs he agrees to do to her cabin.
(d) In payment for farm work Inman agrees to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Inman do to his companion's horse upon meeting up with another group of men?

2. How do Ruby and Ada dress as they set out to find and bury the bodies of Stobrod and Pangle?

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

4. What does Ada tell Inman about her relationship with Ruby?

5. What does the leader of these men order be done with Stobrod and Pangle after they get the answers they needed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stobrod tell Ruby and Ada to attempt to prove that he has changed?

2. What does Stobrod finally confess he wants from Ruby?

3. What does Inman do in exchange for a hot meal from a grief stricken mother?

4. What does Inman find when he finally reaches Black Cove?

5. What animal does Inman dream about and later feel responsible for killing?

6. Who once lived in the village that Ruby and Ada have brought Stobrod to?

7. How does Ada react when she first sees Inman? Does Ada react as Inman imagined she would?

8. What decision does Inman make the following morning about his future?

9. Who comes across Stobrod and Pangle, asking them questions before lining them up in front of a tree and shooting them?

10. What does Inman learn about his new companion that leads him to a conclusion about his own future?

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