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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 causes Stobrod and his companions to become ill in the chapter Naught and Grief?
(a) Some spoiled vegetables Ruby gave them.
(b) The large amount of fruit they have been eating.
(c) A dead doe they ate.
(d) Cherries they stole from a local orchard.

2. What decision does Inman make about his outlier status?
(a) Inman decides to continue to hide until the war is over.
(b) Inman decides to return to the hospital from which he escaped.
(c) Inman decides to go to the Federals and pledge allegiance to the Union.
(d) Inman decides to return to active duty.

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

4. Why does Sara agree to launder and mend Inman's clothes?
(a) In payment for him slaughtering her hog.
(b) In payment for farm work Inman agrees to do.
(c) In payment for food Inman gives her.
(d) In payment for repairs he agrees to do to her cabin.

5. How do Ruby and Ada dress as they set out to find and bury the bodies of Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) In Stobrod's clothing.
(b) In the clothes of Ada's father.
(c) In military uniforms.
(d) In party gowns to possibly confuse the killers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Inman attempt to find Ada?

2. What does Inman dream about in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

3. In the chapter, Naught and Grief, who has joined Stobrod and Pangle?

4. What do most Christians consider the fiddle, refer to it as?

5. What does Inman hope Ada's reaction will be when she sees him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What animal does Inman dream about and later feel responsible for killing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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