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

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

3. 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) All her money and valuable possessions.
(b) Inman.
(c) Three chickens and the hog.
(d) Her infant.

4. How many people were originally in the grief stricken mother's family that Inman meets in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

5. Why does Sara ask Inman to share her bed?
(a) Sara has no other place for Inman to sleep.
(b) Sara finds Inman attractive.
(c) Sara is a prostitute in need of money.
(d) Sara misses her husband and needs to feel some human connection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Inman's progress begin to slow in the chapter, The Doing of It?

2. What does Ruby find in the trap she set in the cornfield?

3. What does Inman find when he eventually reaches Black Cove?

4. Where do Ruby and Ada spend the night as they set out to find Stobrod and Pangle?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who attacks Sara's home while Inman is there?

2. Who do Ruby, Ada, Stobrod, and Inman run into on their way to Black Cove?

3. Who or what does Ruby catch in her trap in the cornfield?

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

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

6. Who helps Inman with his injuries?

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

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

9. What do Ada and Ruby find when they come to Stobrod's camp?

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

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