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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What instrument does Ada and Ruby's guest play?
(a) A banjo.
(b) A guitar.
(c) A fiddle.
(d) A set of drums.

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

5. What decision does Inman make about his outlier status?
(a) Inman decides to return to the hospital from which he escaped.
(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 continue to hide until the war is over.

6. In the chapter, A Satisfied Mind, what does Ruby take into town to trade for beef?
(a) Ralph, the horse.
(b) Freshly made apple cider.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Waldo, the cow.

7. What does Ruby find in the trap she set in the cornfield?
(a) Her father.
(b) A Federal.
(c) A raccoon.
(d) A squirrel.

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

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

10. What does Inman offer to do for a grief stricken mother in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) Harvest her tabacco.
(b) Fix her leaky roof.
(c) Bury her child.
(d) Find her missing child.

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

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

13. 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) A Confederate army unit.
(c) A group of marauders.
(d) The Federals.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Inman decide to attack the approaching group of men?

2. What does Ada hear that causes her to return to Inman?

3. What does Inman discover as he stops to fill a canteen in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

4. What do Ada and Inman discuss after sharing their feelings for one another?

5. With whom does Inman leave the camp?

(see the answer keys)

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