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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. With whom does Inman leave the camp?
(a) Stobrod.
(b) Ruby and Stobrod.
(c) Ada and Ruby.
(d) Ada.

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

6. 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 party gowns to possibly confuse the killers.
(c) In Stobrod's clothing.
(d) In military uniforms.

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

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

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

10. Who rides up and begins asking Strobrod and Pangle questions?
(a) A Confederate scout.
(b) An Indian scout.
(c) Some Federals.
(d) The Home Guard led by Teague.

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

12. What causes one of these men to believe Stobrod and Pangle are holy men?
(a) Their music.
(b) Their Bibles.
(c) Their clothing.
(d) Their speeches.

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

14. What do Ruby and Ada allow the messenger to do as they leave?
(a) To take a few chickens when he leaves.
(b) To sleep in the hayloft until dark.
(c) To take their horse to escape the area.
(d) To sleep in the house until they return.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why has Inman begun to fast as he reaches Cold Mountain?

3. What type of animal does the new person Inman meets in the chapter, The Doing of It, raise?

4. Who joins Ada and Ruby for supper as they enjoy what will most likely be their final dinner outside that fall?

5. Who do Inman and his riding companion run into as they attempt to navigate the forest after leaving the abandoned village?

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