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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 Ada use to construct the item Ruby has told her to create?
(a) A peice of coal.
(b) Lard from the hog killed earlier in the year.
(c) An old cart.
(d) An old ball gown.

2. What does Inman do to the farmer who sold him and Veasey?
(a) Clubs him to death with his gun.
(b) Sends the law to his house.
(c) Steals away his wife.
(d) Shoots him.

3. Who cuts the face of Inman's companion for haggling too much over price?
(a) The barkeeper.
(b) The prostitute named Tildy.
(c) The shopkeeper.
(d) The inn keeper.

4. Why does a preacher believe Inman means to kill him?
(a) Because the preacher attempted to kill an innocent girl to hide his sins.
(b) Becase the preacher threatened to turn Inman in to the Home Guard.
(c) Because the preacher attempted to rob Inman.
(d) Because the preacher attempted to kill Inman.

5. What object does Ruby instruct Ada to create in the chapter, In Place of the Truth?
(a) A picnic table.
(b) A scarecrow.
(c) A drawing of a heron.
(d) A bar of soap.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ada looking for when she goes searching in the basement?

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

3. What does Inman do with the saw?

4. Who is Waldo, mentioned in the chapter Ashes of Roses?

5. What does Inman take with him when he leaves the hospital at the end of the first chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. To whom does Junior sell Inman and Veasey for $5 a head?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the purpose of the spell, To Destroy Life?

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

8. What is Ada's father doing when he dies?

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

10. Who attempts to seduce Inman by putting some sort of drug in his drink?

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