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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

11. What happens to the men who steal from Sara's home?
(a) They have an accident on their starved horses.
(b) Inman kills them and retrieves Sara's belongings.
(c) Sara shoots them with her husband's riffle.
(d) They run into a band of Indians who scalp them.

12. What does Inman read to Ada while she makes dinner after his arrival?
(a) A letter he intended to send her.
(b) A passage from Bertram that is highly sexual.
(c) A passage from the Bible.
(d) A passage from Balis's Greek translation.

13. Where do Ruby and Ada spend the night as they set out to find Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) In a shelter Ruby knew as a child.
(b) At the home of a friend of Monroe's.
(c) In an abandoned barn.
(d) In an old Indian village.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the mother bear that is attempting to protect her cub from Inman?

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

3. What does the leader of these men order be done with Stobrod and Pangle after they get the answers they needed?

4. Who is Pangle?

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

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