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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do these men want to know about?

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

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

4. What happens to the mother bear that is attempting to protect her cub from Inman?

5. Who is Sara, a woman Inman meets in the chapter, Bride Bed Full of Blood?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who helps Inman with his injuries?

5. Who visits Black Cove while Ruby is in town trading apple cider for beef?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Stobrod? How is Stobrod related to Ruby? Why does Ruby show hostility toward Stobrod? Does Stobrod deserve this hostility? Why or why not? How does Stobrod change from before he goes to war to when he returns? Does Ruby trust this change? Why or why not? What does Ada think of Stobrod's character? Does Ada like him? Does Ada's reaction affect Ruby in any way? How?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Greek translation. Why does Inman take this translation after the translator dies? What do these translations mean to Inman? What does Inman plan to do with them after he finds Ada? Does Inman ever get the chance to work on these translations? What is the coverless book Inman carries with him through his travels? Why does Inman read this book? What does this book teach him?

Essay Topic 3

What was Ada's relationship with her father like? How is it different from Ruby's relationship with her own father? How is it similar? Did Ada's relationship with her father affect her personality? If so, how? Was Ada's relationship with her father harmful? In what way? How could Ada's life have been different if her father had been different?

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