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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 do these men want to know about?
(a) The band of outliers robbing rich slavers.
(b) What unit Stobrod and Pangle are with.
(c) Where the nearest town is.
(d) Where Inman might be.

2. What does Ruby instruct Ada to do while she is in town trading for beef?
(a) Build a scarecrow.
(b) Plow the fields.
(c) Split logs and burn brush.
(d) Milk the cow.

3. What does Ruby send Ada out to get when Stobrod wakes them with his coughing in the middle of the night?
(a) Fresh fruit.
(b) Water.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Wild Turkeys.

4. How does this new person help Inman with his journey?
(a) She treats his wounds and gives him medication.
(b) She feeds him a hearty meal that staves off starvation.
(c) She gives him a ride back to the military hospital.
(d) She nurses him through his illness.

5. With whom does Inman leave the camp?
(a) Ada and Ruby.
(b) Stobrod.
(c) Ruby and Stobrod.
(d) Ada.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ada hear that causes her to return to Inman?

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

3. What wish does Inman make when he lies down to sleep in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

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

5. Who is Pangle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What has caused an illness in Stobrod and his companions?

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