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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 is the woman named Laura that Inman meets in the chapter, Life Any Other Thing, a Gift?
(a) Laura is the sister of a Home Guardsmen who ambushes Inman at Deep River.
(b) Laura is the war widow Inman meets beside Deep River.
(c) Laura is the woman the preacher has gotten pregnant and wants to kill to hide his indiscretion.
(d) Laura is the wife of a farmer Inman helps by cutting up a bull that has died in the river by his farm.

2. What does the young man who takes Ada away during the party tell her?
(a) That he wants to be a preacher one day.
(b) That he is afraid of being killed in battle.
(c) That he wants to be president of the new Confederacy.
(d) That he is in love with her.

3. How does Inman attempt to cross the river?
(a) In a boat he finds tied to a tree on the shore.
(b) In a canoe piloted by the daughter of the ferryman.
(c) On a ferry.
(d) On a small raft someone has left abandoned.

4. Who saves Inman's companion from being shot in a standoff with a drunk?
(a) The barkeeper.
(b) Inman.
(c) A prostitute named Tildy.
(d) The local sheriff.

5. Where did a man see a black woman placed in a cage and left for the buzzards to torment?
(a) Georgia.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is a group of people drawn to the street underneath the window of a prisoner?

2. What is the purpose of the spell Inman speaks?

3. Who cuts the face of Inman's companion for haggling too much over price?

4. What kind of food does Inman find in the chapter Exile and Brute Wandering?

5. What story does Ada recall Inman telling her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What scene do Ada and Ruby stumble on on their way back to Black Cove?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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