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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. Where do Ruby and Ada spend the night as they set out to find Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) In an old Indian village.
(b) At the home of a friend of Monroe's.
(c) In an abandoned barn.
(d) In a shelter Ruby knew as a child.

2. What does Ada tell Inman about her relationship with Ruby?
(a) That Ruby is not a servant and will not take orders.
(b) That Ruby is her child.
(c) That Ruby has become her lover.
(d) That Ruby is her illegitimate sister.

3. How many people were originally in the grief stricken mother's family that Inman meets in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.

4. What does Ada hear that causes her to return to Inman?
(a) Inman's voice yelling for help.
(b) The distinctive sound of Inman's gun.
(c) A gun shot.
(d) Stobrod's voice yelling for help.

5. Who comes to visit while Ada is at Black Cove alone in the chapter, A Satisfied Mind?
(a) Brice.
(b) Henry.
(c) Stobrod.
(d) Inman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ruby react to Inman's eventual arrival?

2. How did this person come to compose his own music?

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

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

5. Who do Inman and his riding companion run into as they attempt to navigate the forest after leaving the abandoned village?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who do Ruby, Ada, Stobrod, and Inman run into on their way to Black Cove?

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

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

4. What does Stobrod finally confess he wants from Ruby?

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

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

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

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

9. Who or what does Ruby catch in her trap in the cornfield?

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

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