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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 memory of Ada does Inman share with Ada while they are alone in Ada's cabin?
2. Why does Sara ask Inman to share her bed?
3. What happens to the men who steal from Sara's home?
4. What type of animal does the new person Inman meets in the chapter, The Doing of It, raise?
5. How many people were originally in the grief stricken mother's family that Inman meets in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who tells Ruby and Ada about the shooting of Pangle and Stobrod? How did this witness survive?
2. Who do Ruby, Ada, Stobrod, and Inman run into on their way to Black Cove?
3. Who attacks Sara's home while Inman is there?
4. What does Inman learn about his new companion that leads him to a conclusion about his own future?
5. What does Stobrod tell Ruby and Ada to attempt to prove that he has changed?
6. What do Ada and Ruby find when they come to Stobrod's camp?
7. What does Stobrod finally confess he wants from Ruby?
8. Who helps Inman with his injuries?
9. What does Inman find when he finally reaches Black Cove?
10. Who comes across Stobrod and Pangle, asking them questions before lining them up in front of a tree and shooting them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is Ada? Where has Ada come from? What kind of education does Ada have? Why? Is Ada's education typical of women who live in Cold Mountain? Why does Ada live in Cold Mountain? Why does Ada refuse to leave Cold Mountain when her father dies? How does Ada care for herself? Why does Ada not know how to cook?
Essay Topic 2
Inman and Ada barely know one another before Inman goes to war, but Inman is deeply in love with Ada. Discuss how courtship was different in the time period in which this novel takes place. Would a modern woman have waited for a man like Inman return from war like Ada does? Would a modern woman fall in love with a man with such limited contact? Would a modern man imagine a lifetime with a woman he knew such a short time? Did the war affect the affection these two people felt for one another? In what way?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss morality. Veasey is a preacher, but he appears to have no morals when it comes to sex and women. Why does Veasey begin a relationship with Laura when he is engaged to another woman? Why does Veasey want to kill Laura? Why does Inman not allow this murder? Why does Veasey later get into a fight with a prostitute over money? What do these actions say about Veasey's morals?
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