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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Inman do with the preacher?
(a) Inman turns him over to the local law.
(b) Inman ties him to a tree with a confession written above him.
(c) Inman leaves him alone in the woods, naked and without a weapon.
(d) Inman knocks him out and runs away while he is unconscious.

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

4. What object does Ruby instruct Ada to create in the chapter, In Place of the Truth?
(a) A scarecrow.
(b) A picnic table.
(c) A bar of soap.
(d) A drawing of a heron.

5. What does Ada use to construct the item Ruby has told her to create?
(a) Lard from the hog killed earlier in the year.
(b) An old cart.
(c) An old ball gown.
(d) A peice of coal.

6. What animal does Stobrod claim is Ruby's true father?
(a) A bear.
(b) A lion.
(c) A horse.
(d) A heron.

7. At whose house did Ada attend her final party in Charleston?
(a) Her grandparent's.
(b) Her best friend.
(c) Her aunt's.
(d) Her cousin's.

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

9. From whom is the letter Ruby brings Ada in the chapter, In Place of the Truth?
(a) Inman.
(b) A solicitor.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Thewes.

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

11. Which general does Inman claim he prefers?
(a) Grant.
(b) Longstreet.
(c) Davis.
(d) Lee.

12. What is the name of the farmer who invites Inman and Veasey to spend the night at his farm after they help him remove a dead bull from the river?
(a) Balis.
(b) Junior.
(c) George.
(d) Frank.

13. What kind of food does Inman find in the chapter Exile and Brute Wandering?
(a) A fresh vegetable garden.
(b) Cheese and chicken.
(c) Fresh deer meat.
(d) Honey and catfish.

14. While cooking corn mash, Inman smells what downstream?
(a) A dead animal.
(b) Real food being cooked.
(c) That the corn is spoiled.
(d) The approach of diry, smelly men.

15. 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 became a politician.
(b) That he was killed at Gettysburg.
(c) That he became a preacher.
(d) That he married another young woman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the woman named Laura that Inman meets in the chapter, Life Any Other Thing, a Gift?

3. Where does Inman wake in the opening scene of The Shadow of a Crow?

4. Why did Ada's father choose Cold Mountain over a spa or other appropriate situation?

5. Where does a young man take Ada during this party?

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