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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 noise attracts Inman to Ada and Ruby's camp?
(a) Ada's shotgun shots.
(b) Ruby's riffle.
(c) Ruby's yelling.
(d) Ada's screams.

2. What does Ruby do with the trapped animal from the cornfield?
(a) Feeds him breakfast and threatens to shoot him if he steals from her again.
(b) Lets him go.
(c) Feeds him to the cows.
(d) Gives him supplies and directions.

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

4. 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 the death and destruction he witnessed in the war.
(c) He was inspired by his daughter.
(d) He was inspired by the death of the woman he loved.

5. In the chapter, Naught and Grief, who has joined Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) A young man from Tennessee.
(b) A young man from Georgia.
(c) Pangle's cousin.
(d) A young Indian woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rides up and begins asking Strobrod and Pangle questions?

2. Who tells Ruby and Ada about the shooting of Stobrod and Pangle?

3. How many people were originally in the grief stricken mother's family that Inman meets in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

4. What map does Inman follow on the next leg of his journey in the chapter, The Doing of It?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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