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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. What do these men want to know about?
(a) Where Inman might be.
(b) Where the nearest town is.
(c) What unit Stobrod and Pangle are with.
(d) The band of outliers robbing rich slavers.

7. 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) Waldo, the cow.
(d) Coffee.

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

9. What does Inman learn about this new person that leaves him feeling as though solitude might not be the answer?
(a) That she is lonesome and he would be too.
(b) That she risks death every time she does anything that could lead to injury.
(c) That solitude leads to insanity.
(d) That solitude is boring.

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

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom does Inman leave the camp?

3. In the chapter, Naught and Grief, who has joined Stobrod and Pangle?

4. What does Ada tell Inman about her relationship with Ruby?

5. Who rides up and begins asking Strobrod and Pangle questions?

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