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

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

3. What is Ruby attempting to teach Ada while living at Black Cove?
(a) The teachings of the Koran.
(b) How to be in tune with nature.
(c) Druid Spirituality.
(d) The beliefs of the Catholic Church.

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 has begun to starve to death and the malnutrition is making him so sick he cannot walk very well.
(c) Inman is injured, both from a wound to the head and the wound in his neck from the war battle.
(d) Inman is beginning to doubt his decision to walk away from his committment to the army and is considering returning.

5. What does Inman read about in the newspaper while in town?
(a) About the most recent battles in the war.
(b) About the Home Guard and the Cherokees fighting the Federals.
(c) About the death of a dear friend in the war.
(d) About the attacks by Federals against women and children in Tennessee.