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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Inman steal while at the same time leaving money for its cost?
(a) A dinner bag.
(b) A new shirt.
(c) A new watch.
(d) A new pair of shoes.

2. Why is a group of people drawn to the street underneath the window of a prisoner?
(a) Because the prisoner is claiming police brutality.
(b) Because the prisoner is explaining how he is a war hero who only came home to see his wife.
(c) Because the prisoner is threatening to commit suicide.
(d) Because the prisoner is claiming that he was arrested on false charges and the real criminal is one of the policemen.

3. Who does Inman run into in the middle of the night at Deep River?
(a) A preacher.
(b) A war widow.
(c) A farmer with a wounded bull.
(d) A Home Guardsman.

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

5. What is the purpose of the spell Inman speaks?
(a) To cause an enemy to die in his sleep.
(b) To cause one's enemies to go to Nightland alone, covered in dog excrement, and blue with despair.
(c) To send an enemy to jail for their crimes.
(d) To cause an enemy to catch a terrible, disfiguring illness.

6. Who believes parties are a waste of time and energy?
(a) Laura.
(b) Sally.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Ada.

7. Who is Ruby's father?
(a) Inman's cousin.
(b) Teague.
(c) Stobrod Thewes.
(d) Monroe.

8. Who joins Inman on his journey in the chapter, Exile and Brute Wandering?
(a) The blind man from the military hospital.
(b) The Home Guardsman, Teague.
(c) The preacher, Solomon Veasey.
(d) His childhood friend, Swimmer.

9. What does Inman do to the farmer who sold him and Veasey?
(a) Sends the law to his house.
(b) Shoots him.
(c) Clubs him to death with his gun.
(d) Steals away his wife.

10. What does Ruby suggest Ada sell to generate some money to help them survive the winter?
(a) Either the hog or the horse.
(b) Either the coffee or the tabacco crop.
(c) Either the piano or the cabriolet.
(d) Either the house or a few acres of land.

11. What does Inman do to help Laura?
(a) Inman seduces Laura and agrees to marry her.
(b) Inman takes Laura to a settlement where she might find her husband.
(c) Inman save Laura from a group of Federals who want to steal her only means of survival.
(d) Inman returns her to her home, safe and sound.

12. What character in the story Ada reads to Ruby does Ruby believe resembles her father?
(a) Sir Gawain.
(b) Beowulf.
(c) Lancelot.
(d) Odysseus.

13. Where does a young man take Ada during this party?
(a) In a boat on the river.
(b) To the barn to see a new horse.
(c) To an abandoned cabin.
(d) On a stroll in the woods.

14. What is Ada looking for when she goes searching in the basement?
(a) A rare book her father kept there.
(b) Signs of rodents.
(c) Wine she thinks her father hid there.
(d) Champagne left from a party.

15. Why does Inman become upset about Ada's reaction to his story?
(a) Ada calls the story folkloric.
(b) Ada says the story is false.
(c) Ada belittles Inman for believing in the story.
(d) Ada laughs at the story.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ruby live while helping Ada at Black Cove?

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

3. Why does a neighbor have such a grudge against Stobrod that he often shoots at him when he passes his farm?

4. What happens to Inman after he drinks some fluid Lila gave him?

5. While cooking corn mash, Inman smells what downstream?

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