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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 Inman find when he eventually reaches Black Cove?
(a) An abandoned farm.
(b) Veasey has reached it first.
(c) Stobrod.
(d) The Georgia boy there alone.

2. Who joins Ada and Ruby for supper as they enjoy what will most likely be their final dinner outside that fall?
(a) Inman.
(b) Brice.
(c) Stobrod.
(d) Veasey.

3. Who tells Ruby and Ada about the shooting of Stobrod and Pangle?
(a) One of the outliers.
(b) The boy from Tennessee.
(c) The Georgia boy.
(d) One of the men who shot them.

4. What is taken from Sara's home during the visit by the men who come to Sara's while Inman is still asleep in her bed?
(a) Her infant.
(b) Inman.
(c) All her money and valuable possessions.
(d) Three chickens and the hog.

5. What do Ruby and Ada allow the messenger to do as they leave?
(a) To take their horse to escape the area.
(b) To sleep in the house until they return.
(c) To take a few chickens when he leaves.
(d) To sleep in the hayloft until dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Ada and Ruby's guest play?

2. In the chapter, A Satisfied Mind, what does Ruby take into town to trade for beef?

3. Who comes to Sara's house the next morning after she and Inman share a bed?

4. What does Inman discover as he stops to fill a canteen in the chapter, A Vow to Bear?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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