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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Black Bark in Winter".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the guests who visit Black Cove going?
(a) Casper, Wyoming.
(b) Dallas, Texas.
(c) Nashville, Tennessee.
(d) Camden, South Carolina.

2. What did Ada later learn happened to this young man who spent time alone with her during her final party in Charleston?
(a) That he was killed at Gettysburg.
(b) That he became a politician.
(c) That he married another young woman.
(d) That he became a preacher.

3. What type of animal does the new person Inman meets in the chapter, The Doing of It, raise?
(a) Bulls.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Goats.
(d) Cats.

4. Who does Ruby suggest came up with the idea of celebrating Thanksgiving?
(a) Northern religious groups.
(b) Northern morphine addicts.
(c) Southern business men.
(d) Southern ladies' groups.

5. What item did Inman find on a battlefield and hide during his medical ordeal?
(a) A leather medicine bag.
(b) A LeMat's pistol.
(c) A Whitworth .45 riffle.
(d) A picture of an unknown woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruby find in the trap she set in the cornfield?

2. What do Ruby and Ada do when these visitors surprise them at Black Cove while they are preparing the winter garden?

3. What contest do Ada and Ruby have one night in the chapter, In Place of the Truth?

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

5. Where did a man see a black woman placed in a cage and left for the buzzards to torment?

(see the answer key)

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