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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Inman discover as he stops to fill a canteen in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) Two skeletons being ravaged by a bear.
(b) An abandoned wagon train.
(c) Three skeletons hanging from a tree.
(d) An Indian cairn.

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

3. In the chapter, Naught and Grief, who has joined Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) A young man from Tennessee.
(b) A young man from Georgia.
(c) A young Indian woman.
(d) Pangle's cousin.

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

5. How did this person come to compose his own music?
(a) He was inspired by the death and destruction he witnessed in the war.
(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 of the woman he loved.

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

7. Who do Inman and his riding companion run into as they attempt to navigate the forest after leaving the abandoned village?
(a) The Home Guard.
(b) The Federals.
(c) A Confederate army unit.
(d) A group of marauders.

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

9. 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 has no other place for Inman to sleep.
(d) Sara finds Inman attractive.

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

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

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

13. Who joins Ada and Ruby for supper as they enjoy what will most likely be their final dinner outside that fall?
(a) Brice.
(b) Stobrod.
(c) Inman.
(d) Veasey.

14. Who comes to Sara's house the next morning after she and Inman share a bed?
(a) Three Federals.
(b) The local law.
(c) The local Home Guard.
(d) Several injured Confederates.

15. Who comes to visit while Ada is at Black Cove alone in the chapter, A Satisfied Mind?
(a) Brice.
(b) Stobrod.
(c) Inman.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does this new person help Inman with his journey?

4. Who is Sara, a woman Inman meets in the chapter, Bride Bed Full of Blood?

5. What causes Stobrod and his companions to become ill in the chapter Naught and Grief?

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