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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Naught and Grief".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to Black Cove as Ada and Ruby ready the winter garden?
(a) A group of women and children fleeing the Federals in Tennessee.
(b) A group of deserters from Fredricksburg.
(c) The Federals.
(d) The Home Guard.

2. What character in the story Ada reads to Ruby does Ruby believe resembles her father?
(a) Beowulf.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Lancelot.
(d) Sir Gawain.

3. Who believes parties are a waste of time and energy?
(a) Ada.
(b) Sally.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Laura.

4. Why does Inman's progress begin to slow in the chapter, The Doing of It?
(a) Inman has contracted an illness in his chest, is running a fever, and is delirious.
(b) Inman is injured, both from a wound to the head and the wound in his neck from the war battle.
(c) Inman has begun to starve to death and the malnutrition is making him so sick he cannot walk very well.
(d) Inman is beginning to doubt his decision to walk away from his committment to the army and is considering returning.

5. What story does Ada read to Ruby in the chapter Ashes of Roses?
(a) Homer.
(b) The Tale of the Green Knight.
(c) The Odyssy.
(d) The Legend of King Arthur and the Round Table.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rides up and begins asking Strobrod and Pangle questions?

2. What did Ada later learn happened to this young man who spent time alone with her during her final party in Charleston?

3. What do these men want to know about?

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

5. What causes one of these men to believe Stobrod and Pangle are holy men?

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