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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "A Satisfied Mind".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives while Ada and Ruby listen to the prisoner yelling from his second story prison cell?
(a) A Confederate military company.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) The Home Guard.
(d) The Federals.

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

3. What does the farmer insist Inman do with his wife after catching them in a lover's embrace?
(a) Kill himself.
(b) Marry her.
(c) Kill her.
(d) Make love to her.

4. What guards the farms that Inman passes in the flatlands?
(a) Wild humans.
(b) Wild leopards.
(c) Wild boars.
(d) Wild dogs.

5. What is the topic of conversation when Ruby and Ada visit a friend in the chapter Source and Root?
(a) The war and the wounded from their town.
(b) The war and the horrible consequences.
(c) The war and the romance surrounding it.
(d) The war and the nobility of the sacrifice the men have made.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to Ruby's rescue?

2. Why does a preacher believe Inman means to kill him?

3. Why does Inman's progress begin to slow in the chapter, The Doing of It?

4. Who does Inman dream of as he sleeps the night after meeting the Gypsies?

5. Who does the farmer sell Inman and Veasey to for $5 a head?

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