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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Feeds him to the cows.
(d) Gives him supplies and directions.

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

3. What does Ruby send Ada out to get when Stobrod wakes them with his coughing in the middle of the night?
(a) Fresh fruit.
(b) Wild Turkeys.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Water.

4. What does Ruby instruct Ada to do while she is in town trading for beef?
(a) Plow the fields.
(b) Split logs and burn brush.
(c) Milk the cow.
(d) Build a scarecrow.

5. 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 solitude is boring.
(c) That solitude leads to insanity.
(d) That she risks death every time she does anything that could lead to injury.

6. 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 hayloft until dark.
(d) To sleep in the house until they return.

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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 is darkly jealous and refuses to allow him into their camp.
(c) Ruby falls deeply in love and begins to flirt with Inman.
(d) Ruby insists Ada does not need a man.

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

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

13. Who does Inman meet as he comes to the end of his map in the chapter, The Doing of It?
(a) A band of gypsies.
(b) A dedicated preacher.
(c) An old hermit woman.
(d) A war bride.

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

15. 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) All her money and valuable possessions.
(b) Her infant.
(c) Three chickens and the hog.
(d) Inman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were originally in the grief stricken mother's family that Inman meets in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

2. What does Inman dream about in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

3. With whom does Inman leave the camp?

4. What causes one of these men to believe Stobrod and Pangle are holy men?

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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