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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is taken from Sara's home during the visit by the men who come to Sara's while Inman is still asleep in her bed?
(a) Three chickens and the hog.
(b) Inman.
(c) All her money and valuable possessions.
(d) Her infant.

9. 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 wants to surrender, but not to these men who will surely kill him and his companion.
(c) Inman feels he has no choice, there is no reasoning or hiding from these men.
(d) Inman is tired of running.

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

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

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

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

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

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