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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 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?
(a) Junior.
(b) George.
(c) Frank.
(d) Balis.

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

3. What does Inman read about in the newspaper while in town?
(a) About the Home Guard and the Cherokees fighting the Federals.
(b) About the attacks by Federals against women and children in Tennessee.
(c) About the death of a dear friend in the war.
(d) About the most recent battles in the war.

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

5. What is the name of the spell Inman speaks after the fight he is forced into outside the settlement?
(a) To End a Life.
(b) To Catch a Theif.
(c) To Catch an Ilness.
(d) To Destroy Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blind man sell outside the hospital?

2. What does the farmer insist Inman do with his wife after catching them in a lover's embrace?

3. What type of saw do Inman and Veasey find?

4. What skill does Ada not have that she might need to survive on her own?

5. What did Ada later learn happened to this young man who spent time alone with her during her final party in Charleston?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Balis? What manuscript is he working on?

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

4. What does Inman learn happened to the preacher and his lover?

5. Inman comes across a preacher in the middle of the night. What does Inman stop the preacher from doing?

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Ada decide to sell her piano?

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