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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes one of these men to believe Stobrod and Pangle are holy men?
(a) Their Bibles.
(b) Their speeches.
(c) Their clothing.
(d) Their music.

2. Where do Ruby and Ada spend the night as they set out to find Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) In a shelter Ruby knew as a child.
(b) At the home of a friend of Monroe's.
(c) In an abandoned barn.
(d) In an old Indian village.

3. What does Ruby send Ada out to get when Stobrod wakes them with his coughing in the middle of the night?
(a) Wild Turkeys.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Fresh fruit.
(d) Water.

4. What does Ruby instruct Ada to do while she is in town trading for beef?
(a) Milk the cow.
(b) Plow the fields.
(c) Split logs and burn brush.
(d) Build a scarecrow.

5. What do Ruby and Ada allow the messenger to do as they leave?
(a) To sleep in the hayloft until dark.
(b) To sleep in the house until they return.
(c) To take their horse to escape the area.
(d) To take a few chickens when he leaves.

6. What map does Inman follow on the next leg of his journey in the chapter, The Doing of It?
(a) A map given to him by Veasey.
(b) A map given to him by the Federals.
(c) A map given to him by the yellow slave.
(d) A map given to him by Lila.

7. Who is Pangle?
(a) A new cow Ruby brings home.
(b) Ada's cousin.
(c) Ruby's brother.
(d) A gentle, child-like man and companion to Stobrod.

8. What causes Stobrod and his companions to become ill in the chapter Naught and Grief?
(a) The large amount of fruit they have been eating.
(b) A dead doe they ate.
(c) Some spoiled vegetables Ruby gave them.
(d) Cherries they stole from a local orchard.

9. How did this person get his nickname?
(a) He was expected to have been a girl.
(b) He once broke an expensive vase.
(c) He was nearly beaten to death with a short, straight piece of wood.
(d) He was married to a woman named Inna.

10. Who does Inman meet as he comes to the end of his map in the chapter, The Doing of It?
(a) A band of gypsies.
(b) An old hermit woman.
(c) A dedicated preacher.
(d) A war bride.

11. What decision does Inman make about his outlier status?
(a) Inman decides to continue to hide until the war is over.
(b) Inman decides to return to active duty.
(c) Inman decides to go to the Federals and pledge allegiance to the Union.
(d) Inman decides to return to the hospital from which he escaped.

12. What noise attracts Inman to Ada and Ruby's camp?
(a) Ada's screams.
(b) Ruby's riffle.
(c) Ada's shotgun shots.
(d) Ruby's yelling.

13. Where do Ada and Ruby go for the night as snow begins to threaten?
(a) To an abandoned barn.
(b) To a village abandoned by the Trail of Tears.
(c) To the same shelter they used the night before.
(d) To an abandoned Indian cave.

14. What do Ada and Inman discuss after sharing their feelings for one another?
(a) The future, specifically marriage and life at Black Cove.
(b) The death of Monroe.
(c) The dangers of the war.
(d) Inman's status as a fugitive.

15. What does Inman read to Ada while she makes dinner after his arrival?
(a) A passage from Bertram that is highly sexual.
(b) A passage from Balis's Greek translation.
(c) A passage from the Bible.
(d) A letter he intended to send her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Inman find when he eventually reaches Black Cove?

2. What does the leader of these men order be done with Stobrod and Pangle after they get the answers they needed?

3. Who do Inman and his riding companion run into as they attempt to navigate the forest after leaving the abandoned village?

4. What happens to the mother bear that is attempting to protect her cub from Inman?

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

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