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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What wish does Inman make when he lies down to sleep in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) A quick end to his journey.
(b) For a larger moon.
(c) To see Ada before he dies.
(d) To be alive when the sun rises.

2. Who tells Ruby and Ada about the shooting of Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) One of the outliers.
(b) The boy from Tennessee.
(c) The Georgia boy.
(d) One of the men who shot them.

3. What do Ruby and Ada find when they arrive at Stobrod's camp?
(a) Both Stobrod and Pangle dead where they were shot.
(b) Pangle dead, but Stobrod still alive.
(c) Stobrod dead, but Pangle still alive.
(d) Neither Stobrod or Pangle.

4. What memory of Ada does Inman share with Ada while they are alone in Ada's cabin?
(a) The afternoon they strolled by the river.
(b) The day she apologized for ridiculing his stories.
(c) The Christmas party where she sat in his lap.
(d) The first time he saw her in church.

5. What does Inman do to his companion's horse upon meeting up with another group of men?
(a) Inman forces Ruby's horse to gallop toward the approaching men.
(b) Inman forces Stobrod's horse to gallop away.
(c) Inman forces Ruby's horse to gallop in the opposite direction.
(d) Inman forces Ada's horse to stop.

6. Why does Inman decide to attack the approaching group of men?
(a) Inman has seen Ada, so now he is ready to die.
(b) Inman feels he has no choice, there is no reasoning or hiding from these men.
(c) Inman is tired of running.
(d) Inman wants to surrender, but not to these men who will surely kill him and his companion.

7. What happens to the mother bear that is attempting to protect her cub from Inman?
(a) She is killed by a passing Indian.
(b) Inman is forced to kill her.
(c) She charges him and falls from a cliff.
(d) She simply walks away, leaving her cub behind.

8. What does the leader of these men order be done with Stobrod and Pangle after they get the answers they needed?
(a) He orders that they be allowed to go free.
(b) He orders them hung.
(c) He orders them arrested.
(d) He orders them shot.

9. What does Ada hear that causes her to return to Inman?
(a) Inman's voice yelling for help.
(b) A gun shot.
(c) Stobrod's voice yelling for help.
(d) The distinctive sound of Inman's gun.

10. What reason does Stobrod give for wanting to live at Black Cove?
(a) He wants to make amends to his daughter for her poor childhood.
(b) The new leader of the deserters wants him to leave.
(c) The Home Guard will never think he is a deserter if he lives on a farm in the open.
(d) The new leader of the outliers, the deserters, wants them to rob rich slave owners.

11. How does this new person help Inman with his journey?
(a) She nurses him through his illness.
(b) She gives him a ride back to the military hospital.
(c) She treats his wounds and gives him medication.
(d) She feeds him a hearty meal that staves off starvation.

12. Why has Inman begun to fast as he reaches Cold Mountain?
(a) So he will be skinny and handsome for Ada.
(b) So he can enjoy a huge feast when he finds Ada.
(c) So he will die quickly if Ada refuses him.
(d) So he can cross the portal at Shining Rock if Ada refuses him.

13. Why does Sara ask Inman to share her bed?
(a) Sara misses her husband and needs to feel some human connection.
(b) Sara is a prostitute in need of money.
(c) Sara finds Inman attractive.
(d) Sara has no other place for Inman to sleep.

14. What happens to the men who steal from Sara's home?
(a) Inman kills them and retrieves Sara's belongings.
(b) They have an accident on their starved horses.
(c) They run into a band of Indians who scalp them.
(d) Sara shoots them with her husband's riffle.

15. Why does Inman's progress begin to slow in the chapter, The Doing of It?
(a) Inman has contracted an illness in his chest, is running a fever, and is delirious.
(b) Inman is injured, both from a wound to the head and the wound in his neck from the war battle.
(c) Inman has begun to starve to death and the malnutrition is making him so sick he cannot walk very well.
(d) Inman is beginning to doubt his decision to walk away from his committment to the army and is considering returning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruby send Ada out to get when Stobrod wakes them with his coughing in the middle of the night?

2. What does Inman learn about this new person that leaves him feeling as though solitude might not be the answer?

3. What does Inman offer to do for a grief stricken mother in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

4. What does Inman dream about in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

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

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