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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 the Bible.
(c) A passage from Balis's Greek translation.
(d) A letter he intended to send her.

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

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

5. How does Inman attempt to find Ada?
(a) He follows footsteps in the snow.
(b) He follows a map Swimmer gave him.
(c) He follows directions given to him at Black Cove.
(d) He follows blood drops on the vegetation.

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

7. How does Ruby react to Inman's eventual arrival?
(a) Ruby insists Ada does not need a man.
(b) Ruby is darkly jealous and refuses to allow him into their camp.
(c) Ruby is indifferent, except for a concern over the amount of food they must share with him.
(d) Ruby falls deeply in love and begins to flirt with Inman.

8. What does Inman dream about in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) That he has returned to Cold Mountain to find Ada married to another man.
(b) That he returns to Sara and becomes her husband.
(c) That he has become a bear and is shot and skinned by hunters.
(d) That he has been killed in battle.

9. What does Inman find when he eventually reaches Black Cove?
(a) The Georgia boy there alone.
(b) Veasey has reached it first.
(c) Stobrod.
(d) An abandoned farm.

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

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

12. What does Ada tell Inman about her relationship with Ruby?
(a) That Ruby is not a servant and will not take orders.
(b) That Ruby is her illegitimate sister.
(c) That Ruby has become her lover.
(d) That Ruby is her child.

13. Who is Sara, a woman Inman meets in the chapter, Bride Bed Full of Blood?
(a) A hermit woman.
(b) An old girlfriend of Veasey's.
(c) The defiled companion of a preacher.
(d) A war widow.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Ada and Ruby go for the night as snow begins to threaten?

2. How do Ruby and Ada dress as they set out to find and bury the bodies of Stobrod and Pangle?

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

4. What does Inman hope Ada's reaction will be when she sees him?

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

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