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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Inman learn this spell?

2. What book does Inman read while in the hospital?

3. What does Inman take with him when he leaves the hospital at the end of the first chapter?

4. Who saves Inman's companion from being shot in a standoff with a drunk?

5. What does the blind man answer when Inman asks if he would like to be able to see for ten minutes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Inman dream about after seeing a dark-haired girl riding a horse?

2. What does Inman do with a saw he and Veasey find?

3. On her last night in Charleston, Ada went out on the lake with what person? What do they discuss?

4. What did Inman find on the battlefield that he kept hidden throughout his medical ordeal?

5. What does Ruby instruct Ada to create?

6. Who comes to the scene Ada and Ruby are watching?

7. Why does Ada decide to sell her piano?

8. When Inman stops to make corn mush, what does he smell that leads him further down the river?

9. To whom does Junior sell Inman and Veasey for $5 a head?

10. Inman comes across a preacher in the middle of the night. What does Inman stop the preacher from doing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss morality. Veasey is a preacher, but he appears to have no morals when it comes to sex and women. Why does Veasey begin a relationship with Laura when he is engaged to another woman? Why does Veasey want to kill Laura? Why does Inman not allow this murder? Why does Veasey later get into a fight with a prostitute over money? What do these actions say about Veasey's morals?

Essay Topic 2

Inman and Ada barely know one another before Inman goes to war, but Inman is deeply in love with Ada. Discuss how courtship was different in the time period in which this novel takes place. Would a modern woman have waited for a man like Inman return from war like Ada does? Would a modern woman fall in love with a man with such limited contact? Would a modern man imagine a lifetime with a woman he knew such a short time? Did the war affect the affection these two people felt for one another? In what way?

Essay Topic 3

What lesson is Inman repeatedly told to learn? Why? Why do people ask this of Inman? What do they hope he will learn from this lesson? Does Inman learn this lesson? What does this lesson teach Inman?

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