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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did this person come to compose his own music?
(a) He was inspired by the death of the woman he loved.
(b) He was inspired by his daughter.
(c) He was inspired by a dying girl he was paid to perform for.
(d) He was inspired by the death and destruction he witnessed in the war.

4. What type of animal does the new person Inman meets in the chapter, The Doing of It, raise?
(a) Goats.
(b) Cats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Bulls.

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

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

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

8. What do most Christians consider the fiddle, refer to it as?
(a) The Devil's Guitar.
(b) The Devil's Playground.
(c) The Devil's Instrument.
(d) The Devil's Box.

9. 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) In an old Indian village.
(c) In an abandoned barn.
(d) At the home of a friend of Monroe's.

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

11. 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) A war bride.
(c) A dedicated preacher.
(d) An old hermit woman.

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

13. Why does Sara agree to launder and mend Inman's clothes?
(a) In payment for farm work Inman agrees to do.
(b) In payment for him slaughtering her hog.
(c) In payment for repairs he agrees to do to her cabin.
(d) In payment for food Inman gives her.

14. 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 Lila.
(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 Veasey.

15. What does Inman hope Ada's reaction will be when she sees him?
(a) Inman hopes Ada will have a fresh meal waiting.
(b) Inman hopes Ada will have a great many stories to tell him.
(c) Inman hopes Ada will welcome him with open arms.
(d) Inman hopes Ada will joke with him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Inman attempt to find Ada?

3. Why has Inman begun to fast as he reaches Cold Mountain?

4. How does Ruby react to Inman's eventual arrival?

5. What does Inman do to his companion's horse upon meeting up with another group of men?

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