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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. While cooking corn mash, Inman smells what downstream?
(a) A dead animal.
(b) That the corn is spoiled.
(c) Real food being cooked.
(d) The approach of diry, smelly men.

2. What woman reminds Inman of Ada?
(a) A red haired woman in a bathing suit.
(b) A dark haired woman on a horse.
(c) A brunette on a bull.
(d) A blond woman in a fancy dress.

3. What does the young man who takes Ada away during the party tell her?
(a) That he is afraid of being killed in battle.
(b) That he wants to be president of the new Confederacy.
(c) That he wants to be a preacher one day.
(d) That he is in love with her.

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

5. How does Inman escape his ordeal after leaving the farmer's home?
(a) Inman and Veasey run away in the middle of the night.
(b) Inman and Veasey decide they are better off where they are and do nothing.
(c) Inman survives the shooting and is able to cut his restraints with a rock.
(d) Inman and Veasey are rescued by Lila, the farmer's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do most Christians consider the fiddle, refer to it as?

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

3. What crime does this farmer believe his wife has committed?

4. Who is Waldo, mentioned in the chapter Ashes of Roses?

5. Why does Ada decide not to return to Charleston after her father's death?

(see the answer key)

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