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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. Who comes to Sara's house the next morning after she and Inman share a bed?
(a) Several injured Confederates.
(b) Three Federals.
(c) The local law.
(d) The local Home Guard.

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

3. What does Inman offer to do for a grief stricken mother in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) Harvest her tabacco.
(b) Find her missing child.
(c) Fix her leaky roof.
(d) Bury her child.

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

5. What reason does Stobrod give for wanting to live at Black Cove?
(a) The new leader of the outliers, the deserters, wants them to rob rich slave owners.
(b) The Home Guard will never think he is a deserter if he lives on a farm in the open.
(c) The new leader of the deserters wants him to leave.
(d) He wants to make amends to his daughter for her poor childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruby instruct Ada to do while she is in town trading for beef?

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

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

4. What do these men want to know about?

5. Who does Inman meet as he comes to the end of his map in the chapter, The Doing of It?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who tells Ruby and Ada about the shooting of Pangle and Stobrod? How did this witness survive?

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

3. How does Inman end up at the home of a war widow?

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

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

6. Who helps Inman with his injuries?

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

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

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

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

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