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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. Who does Inman write a letter to at the end of the first chapter?
(a) Inman writes a letter to his brother.
(b) Inman writes a letter to his mother.
(c) Inman writes a letter to the girl who sat on his lap four years ago.
(d) Inman writes a letter to the girl he met the summer he spent in the woods attempting to learn the Cherokee ways.

2. How does Inman attempt to cross the river?
(a) On a small raft someone has left abandoned.
(b) In a boat he finds tied to a tree on the shore.
(c) In a canoe piloted by the daughter of the ferryman.
(d) On a ferry.

3. Who was Monroe's favorite poet?
(a) Palmer.
(b) Holmes.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Woodsworth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After the death of her father, what does Ada learn about her financial situation?

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

3. What does the blind man sell outside the hospital?

4. What gun does Inman notice in a settlement where he stops to pick up supplies?

5. Which general does Inman claim he prefers?

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