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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 dream about in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) That he returns to Sara and becomes her husband.
(b) That he has become a bear and is shot and skinned by hunters.
(c) That he has returned to Cold Mountain to find Ada married to another man.
(d) That he has been killed in battle.

2. Who do Inman and his riding companion run into as they attempt to navigate the forest after leaving the abandoned village?
(a) The Federals.
(b) A group of marauders.
(c) A Confederate army unit.
(d) The Home Guard.

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

4. What instrument does Ada and Ruby's guest play?
(a) A fiddle.
(b) A guitar.
(c) A banjo.
(d) A set of drums.

5. What reason does Stobrod give for wanting to live at Black Cove?
(a) He wants to make amends to his daughter for her poor childhood.
(b) The new leader of the deserters wants him to leave.
(c) The Home Guard will never think he is a deserter if he lives on a farm in the open.
(d) The new leader of the outliers, the deserters, wants them to rob rich slave owners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruby instruct Ada to do while she is in town trading for beef?

2. How does Inman attempt to find Ada?

3. What causes Stobrod and his companions to become ill in the chapter Naught and Grief?

4. Who comes to Sara's house the next morning after she and Inman share a bed?

5. What does Ruby send Ada out to get when Stobrod wakes them with his coughing in the middle of the night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Inman learn about his new companion that leads him to a conclusion about his own future?

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

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

4. How does Inman end up at the home of a war widow?

5. What decision does Inman make the following morning about his future?

6. Who helps Inman with his injuries?

7. Who once lived in the village that Ruby and Ada have brought Stobrod to?

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. What do Ada and Ruby find when they come to Stobrod's camp?

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