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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Footsteps in the Snow".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruby instruct Ada to do while she is in town trading for beef?
(a) Milk the cow.
(b) Split logs and burn brush.
(c) Build a scarecrow.
(d) Plow the fields.

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

3. Where do Ruby and Ada spend the night as they set out to find Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) At the home of a friend of Monroe's.
(b) In a shelter Ruby knew as a child.
(c) In an old Indian village.
(d) In an abandoned barn.

4. How did this person come to compose his own music?
(a) He was inspired by his daughter.
(b) He was inspired by a dying girl he was paid to perform for.
(c) He was inspired by the death of the woman he loved.
(d) He was inspired by the death and destruction he witnessed in the war.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the farmer insist Inman do with his wife after catching them in a lover's embrace?

2. What does Inman do to the farmer who sold him and Veasey?

3. How long has Ada lived in Black Cove?

4. Why does Inman believe the person he sees at Deep River is up to no good?

5. Where does Inman dream of living one day?

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