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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. 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.

2. How does Inman escape his ordeal after leaving the farmer's home?
(a) Inman and Veasey decide they are better off where they are and do nothing.
(b) Inman and Veasey are rescued by Lila, the farmer's wife.
(c) Inman survives the shooting and is able to cut his restraints with a rock.
(d) Inman and Veasey run away in the middle of the night.

3. What do Ruby and Ada do when these visitors surprise them at Black Cove while they are preparing the winter garden?
(a) Run away and hide.
(b) Feed them a chicken dinner and give them supplies.
(c) Offer up their money and a few animals for food.
(d) Cowar as the visitors raid their supplies.

4. What text is Balis, Inman's neighbor in the hospital, translating into English?
(a) A Greek text.
(b) A French text.
(c) A Latin text.
(d) A Spanish text.

5. Why is a group of people drawn to the street underneath the window of a prisoner?
(a) Because the prisoner is explaining how he is a war hero who only came home to see his wife.
(b) Because the prisoner is threatening to commit suicide.
(c) Because the prisoner is claiming police brutality.
(d) Because the prisoner is claiming that he was arrested on false charges and the real criminal is one of the policemen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young man who takes Ada away during the party tell her?

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

3. While cooking corn mash, Inman smells what downstream?

4. Which of Teague's men argues that they need to bring in a living prisoner?

5. Where did Inman learn this spell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Inman in a military hospital?

2. Why did Inman decide he would like to meet Ada?

3. What is the main topic of conversation when Ada and Ruby visit Monroe's friend, Mrs. McKennet?

4. What did Inman find on the battlefield that he kept hidden throughout his medical ordeal?

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

6. Why does Ruby put a trap in the corn field? Why does Ada instruct her to pad the teeth on the trap?

7. What group of people stop at Black Cove on their way to Camden, South Carolina?

8. To whom does Inman send a letter shortly before leaving the hospital?

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

10. On her last night in Charleston, Ada went out on the lake with what person? What do they discuss?

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