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

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

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

4. What happens to the mother bear that is attempting to protect her cub from Inman?
(a) Inman is forced to kill her.
(b) She is killed by a passing Indian.
(c) She simply walks away, leaving her cub behind.
(d) She charges him and falls from a cliff.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Inman begun to fast as he reaches Cold Mountain?

2. What does Inman read to Ada while she makes dinner after his arrival?

3. What do these men want to know about?

4. Where do Ada and Ruby go for the night as snow begins to threaten?

5. Who comes to visit while Ada is at Black Cove alone in the chapter, A Satisfied Mind?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who helps Inman with his injuries?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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