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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 do to help Laura?
(a) Inman save Laura from a group of Federals who want to steal her only means of survival.
(b) Inman seduces Laura and agrees to marry her.
(c) Inman returns her to her home, safe and sound.
(d) Inman takes Laura to a settlement where she might find her husband.

2. What does the farmer insist Inman do with his wife after catching them in a lover's embrace?
(a) Kill her.
(b) Make love to her.
(c) Kill himself.
(d) Marry her.

3. Why does Ruby come to Black Cove?
(a) Ruby wants to buy Black Cove.
(b) Ruby wants to buy Ada's animals.
(c) Ruby wants to befriend Ada.
(d) Ruby wants to offer her services to Ada.

4. What story does Ada recall Inman telling her?
(a) An Indian story about a tribe's inability to enter the hidden room behind Shining Rock.
(b) The story of his birth and early childhood.
(c) An Indian story about the origins of Cold Mountain.
(d) How Swimmer once taught him a spell called To Cause Grave Illness.

5. Where does Inman wake in the opening scene of The Shadow of a Crow?
(a) A military hospital.
(b) A military camp.
(c) A cabin in the woods.
(d) A farm near Cold Mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What crime does this farmer believe his wife has committed?

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

3. Why did Monroe not marry Ada's mother when they were both younger?

4. From whom is the letter Ruby brings Ada in the chapter, In Place of the Truth?

5. Where did Inman learn this spell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Junior do when he finds Inman in his wife's arms?

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

3. Who is Odell and what story does he tell Inman?

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

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

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

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

8. Who comes to the scene Ada and Ruby are watching?

9. What does Ruby instruct Ada to create?

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

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