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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What reason does Stobrod give for wanting to live at Black Cove?
(a) The new leader of the deserters wants him to leave.
(b) The new leader of the outliers, the deserters, wants them to rob rich slave owners.
(c) The Home Guard will never think he is a deserter if he lives on a farm in the open.
(d) He wants to make amends to his daughter for her poor childhood.

4. Who comes to visit while Ada is at Black Cove alone in the chapter, A Satisfied Mind?
(a) Brice.
(b) Inman.
(c) Stobrod.
(d) Henry.

5. How does this new person help Inman with his journey?
(a) She treats his wounds and gives him medication.
(b) She gives him a ride back to the military hospital.
(c) She feeds him a hearty meal that staves off starvation.
(d) She nurses him through his illness.

6. 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 become a bear and is shot and skinned by hunters.
(c) That he has been killed in battle.
(d) That he has returned to Cold Mountain to find Ada married to another man.

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

8. 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 continue to hide until the war is over.
(c) Inman decides to go to the Federals and pledge allegiance to the Union.
(d) Inman decides to return to active duty.

9. 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 can cross the portal at Shining Rock if Ada refuses him.
(d) So he will be skinny and handsome for Ada.

10. Where do Ada and Ruby go for the night as snow begins to threaten?
(a) To an abandoned Indian cave.
(b) To the same shelter they used the night before.
(c) To a village abandoned by the Trail of Tears.
(d) To an abandoned barn.

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

12. What does Ruby do with the trapped animal from the cornfield?
(a) Lets him go.
(b) Feeds him breakfast and threatens to shoot him if he steals from her again.
(c) Gives him supplies and directions.
(d) Feeds him to the cows.

13. What map does Inman follow on the next leg of his journey in the chapter, The Doing of It?
(a) A map given to him by the yellow slave.
(b) A map given to him by the Federals.
(c) A map given to him by Veasey.
(d) A map given to him by Lila.

14. How many people were originally in the grief stricken mother's family that Inman meets in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What memory of Ada does Inman share with Ada while they are alone in Ada's cabin?

2. With whom does Inman leave the camp?

3. What does Ruby find in the trap she set in the cornfield?

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

5. What is the first thing Inman does when he finally finds Ada?

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