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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. Why does Inman's progress begin to slow in the chapter, The Doing of It?
(a) Inman has contracted an illness in his chest, is running a fever, and is delirious.
(b) Inman has begun to starve to death and the malnutrition is making him so sick he cannot walk very well.
(c) Inman is beginning to doubt his decision to walk away from his committment to the army and is considering returning.
(d) Inman is injured, both from a wound to the head and the wound in his neck from the war battle.

2. How did this person come to compose his own music?
(a) He was inspired by the death of the woman he loved.
(b) He was inspired by a dying girl he was paid to perform for.
(c) He was inspired by his daughter.
(d) He was inspired by the death and destruction he witnessed in the war.

3. Who is Sara, a woman Inman meets in the chapter, Bride Bed Full of Blood?
(a) A hermit woman.
(b) A war widow.
(c) The defiled companion of a preacher.
(d) An old girlfriend of Veasey's.

4. What wish does Inman make when he lies down to sleep in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) To see Ada before he dies.
(b) A quick end to his journey.
(c) For a larger moon.
(d) To be alive when the sun rises.

5. What do most Christians consider the fiddle, refer to it as?
(a) The Devil's Playground.
(b) The Devil's Guitar.
(c) The Devil's Box.
(d) The Devil's Instrument.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Pangle?

2. What memory of Ada does Inman share with Ada while they are alone in Ada's cabin?

3. What does the leader of these men order be done with Stobrod and Pangle after they get the answers they needed?

4. What does Inman discover as he stops to fill a canteen in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

5. What does Ruby do with the trapped animal from the cornfield?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who attacks Sara's home while Inman is there?

2. Who tells Ruby and Ada about the shooting of Pangle and Stobrod? How did this witness survive?

3. What does Inman find when he finally reaches Black Cove?

4. Who helps Inman with his injuries?

5. Who comes across Stobrod and Pangle, asking them questions before lining them up in front of a tree and shooting them?

6. Who visits Black Cove while Ruby is in town trading apple cider for beef?

7. What does Stobrod tell Ruby and Ada to attempt to prove that he has changed?

8. How does Ada react when she first sees Inman? Does Ada react as Inman imagined she would?

9. What does Inman do in exchange for a hot meal from a grief stricken mother?

10. Why are things awkward between Inman and Ada at first? How does this begin to change?

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