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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Inman write a letter to at the end of the first chapter?
(a) Inman writes a letter to his brother.
(b) Inman writes a letter to his mother.
(c) Inman writes a letter to the girl he met the summer he spent in the woods attempting to learn the Cherokee ways.
(d) Inman writes a letter to the girl who sat on his lap four years ago.

2. As Inman continues his journey, who does he come across who helps him?
(a) Swimmer.
(b) Thewes.
(c) A war widow.
(d) A yellow slave.

3. What does Inman take with him when he leaves the hospital at the end of the first chapter?
(a) Inman takes nothing but a change of clothes.
(b) Inman takes his readied haversack and the manuscript Balis was working on.
(c) Inman takes his readied haversack and a picture he admired that belonged to his now dead neighbor.
(d) Inman takes a book and money he took from his neighbor who has died.

4. What happens to Inman after he drinks some fluid Lila gave him?
(a) He falls asleep.
(b) He is unable to fight off her attempts at seduction.
(c) He becomes violently ill.
(d) He becomes instantly drunk.

5. Why does Ada find herself sitting in Inman's lap?
(a) She became faint and giddy.
(b) She was attempting to seduce him.
(c) She was drunk and became unstable.
(d) He pulled her into his lap for a kiss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Inman read while in the hospital?

2. Where does Inman dream of living one day?

3. What income did Ada and her father live on?

4. Who introduced Inman to Ada?

5. What is the name of the farmer who invites Inman and Veasey to spend the night at his farm after they help him remove a dead bull from the river?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who joins Inman on his journey in the chapter, Exile and Brute Wandering?

2. Why do three men attack Inman outside a settlement where he stops to get supplies?

3. What happens when Inman attempts to cross a river using the canoe of a young Indian woman?

4. When Inman stops to make corn mush, what does he smell that leads him further down the river?

5. What story does Ada read to Ruby? Which character reminds Ruby of her father?

6. Why does Inman seek out the blind man and speak to him about the war and his feelings on being born without eyes?

7. Why have Ada and her father moved to Black Cove?

8. What does Inman do with a saw he and Veasey find?

9. Who does Ada think of as she watches the piano moved out of the house?

10. What does Inman leave money for even as he steals it?

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