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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 is the first thing Inman does when he finally finds Ada?
(a) Eats.
(b) Drinks.
(c) Sleeps.
(d) Talks.

2. Why does Inman decide to attack the approaching group of men?
(a) Inman feels he has no choice, there is no reasoning or hiding from these men.
(b) Inman is tired of running.
(c) Inman wants to surrender, but not to these men who will surely kill him and his companion.
(d) Inman has seen Ada, so now he is ready to die.

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

4. 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) Coffee.
(c) Wild Turkeys.
(d) Water.

5. What does Inman read to Ada while she makes dinner after his arrival?
(a) A passage from Balis's Greek translation.
(b) A passage from Bertram that is highly sexual.
(c) A letter he intended to send her.
(d) A passage from the Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Inman learn about this new person that leaves him feeling as though solitude might not be the answer?

2. 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?

3. Why does Inman's progress begin to slow in the chapter, The Doing of It?

4. Who does Inman meet as he comes to the end of his map in the chapter, The Doing of It?

5. With whom does Inman leave the camp?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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