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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ruby react to Inman's eventual arrival?
(a) Ruby insists Ada does not need a man.
(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 is indifferent, except for a concern over the amount of food they must share with him.

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

3. 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 enjoy a huge feast when he finds Ada.
(c) So he will be skinny and handsome for Ada.
(d) So he can cross the portal at Shining Rock if Ada refuses him.

4. What does Inman do to his companion's horse upon meeting up with another group of men?
(a) Inman forces Ruby's horse to gallop toward the approaching men.
(b) Inman forces Stobrod's horse to gallop away.
(c) Inman forces Ada's horse to stop.
(d) Inman forces Ruby's horse to gallop in the opposite direction.

5. 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 group of marauders.
(d) A Confederate army unit.

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

7. Who is Pangle?
(a) A gentle, child-like man and companion to Stobrod.
(b) A new cow Ruby brings home.
(c) Ruby's brother.
(d) Ada's cousin.

8. What do Ada and Inman discuss after sharing their feelings for one another?
(a) The dangers of the war.
(b) The future, specifically marriage and life at Black Cove.
(c) The death of Monroe.
(d) Inman's status as a fugitive.

9. How do Ruby and Ada dress as they set out to find and bury the bodies of Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) In the clothes of Ada's father.
(b) In Stobrod's clothing.
(c) In party gowns to possibly confuse the killers.
(d) In military uniforms.

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

11. What does Inman hope Ada's reaction will be when she sees him?
(a) Inman hopes Ada will have a fresh meal waiting.
(b) Inman hopes Ada will welcome him with open arms.
(c) Inman hopes Ada will joke with him.
(d) Inman hopes Ada will have a great many stories to tell him.

12. 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.

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) An abandoned wagon train.
(c) Two skeletons being ravaged by a bear.
(d) An Indian cairn.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Ruby and Ada allow the messenger to do as they leave?

3. How did this person come to compose his own music?

4. What does Ruby send Ada out to get when Stobrod wakes them with his coughing in the middle of the night?

5. 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?

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