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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long has Ada lived in Black Cove?
(a) Six months.
(b) Sixty years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Six weeks.

3. After the death of her father, what does Ada learn about her financial situation?
(a) Ada should return to Charleston to inherit her money.
(b) The farm was left to Ada's cousin, making her dependent on family for income.
(c) Ada has plenty of money to live on.
(d) There is no money left.

4. What text is Balis, Inman's neighbor in the hospital, translating into English?
(a) A Spanish text.
(b) A French text.
(c) A Latin text.
(d) A Greek text.

5. What does Inman take with him when he leaves the hospital at the end of the first chapter?
(a) Inman takes nothing but a change of clothes.
(b) Inman takes his readied haversack and the manuscript Balis was working on.
(c) Inman takes a book and money he took from his neighbor who has died.
(d) Inman takes his readied haversack and a picture he admired that belonged to his now dead neighbor.

6. Why did Monroe not marry Ada's mother when they were both younger?
(a) She was already married to someone else.
(b) He did not meet her till they were older.
(c) He caught her kissing another man.
(d) Her father would not allow the marriage to take place.

7. Who does Inman dream of as he sleeps the night after meeting the Gypsies?
(a) Ruby.
(b) Laura.
(c) Sally.
(d) Ada.

8. Where is Inman's companion planning on going?
(a) California.
(b) Georgia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Texas.

9. 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 nobility of the sacrifice the men have made.
(c) The war and the romance surrounding it.
(d) The war and the horrible consequences.

10. What does the blind man sell outside the hospital?
(a) Peanuts and newspapers.
(b) Bibles and hot dogs.
(c) Chestnuts and drawings.
(d) Medicine and peanuts.

11. Where does Inman dream of living one day?
(a) In a cabin high in the moutains.
(b) In the flatlands he is traveling through.
(c) In a big city in the East.
(d) At Black Cove with Ada.

12. As Inman continues his journey, who does he come across who helps him?
(a) A war widow.
(b) Swimmer.
(c) A yellow slave.
(d) Thewes.

13. Why does a preacher believe Inman means to kill him?
(a) Because the preacher attempted to rob Inman.
(b) Because the preacher attempted to kill Inman.
(c) Because the preacher attempted to kill an innocent girl to hide his sins.
(d) Becase the preacher threatened to turn Inman in to the Home Guard.

14. What confession does the person Inman meets at Deep River make?
(a) That she has run away from her husband with all the family money.
(b) That he has stolen food from a nearby store.
(c) That he has impregnanted a woman not his fiancee.
(d) That she has killed her husband.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Claire Duchutes?

3. What did Ada later learn happened to this young man who spent time alone with her during her final party in Charleston?

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

5. Who was Monroe's favorite poet?

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