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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Color of Despair".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the death of her father, what does Ada learn about her financial situation?
(a) Ada has plenty of money to live on.
(b) Ada should return to Charleston to inherit her money.
(c) The farm was left to Ada's cousin, making her dependent on family for income.
(d) There is no money left.

2. What did Ada's father often preach about during church services?
(a) Why man is born to die.
(b) Why man is burdened with free will.
(c) Why man is doomed to failure.
(d) Why man was created.

3. Why does Ada decide not to return to Charleston after her father's death?
(a) Ada feels Cold Mountain is the only place where she belongs.
(b) Ada has bad memories of her childhood in Charleston.
(c) Ada does not like her relatives in Charleston.
(d) Ada feels she has nothing to go back to.

4. Where did Inman meet Ada for the first time?
(a) At a friend's house.
(b) At the local school.
(c) At the local store.
(d) At church.

5. What book does Inman read while in the hospital?
(a) Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
(c) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
(d) Travels by William Bartram.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Inman take with him when he leaves the hospital at the end of the first chapter?

2. What is the name of the spell Inman speaks after the fight he is forced into outside the settlement?

3. Where did Inman learn this spell?

4. Where does Inman wake in the opening scene of The Shadow of a Crow?

5. What side of the war does Inman fight on?

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