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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. What does the leader of these men order be done with Stobrod and Pangle after they get the answers they needed?

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

3. Who rides up and begins asking Strobrod and Pangle questions?

4. What happens to the mother bear that is attempting to protect her cub from Inman?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who helps Inman with his injuries?

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

10. What has caused an illness in Stobrod and his companions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Trail of Tears. What was the Trail of Tears? How does the Trail of Tears compare to the actions of the Home Guard? How did the Trail of Tears affect the Indians? How did it affect Inman and other character's sympathetic to the Indians? Why does the author mention the Trail of Tears repeatedly in this novel?

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

Who is Ada? Where has Ada come from? What kind of education does Ada have? Why? Is Ada's education typical of women who live in Cold Mountain? Why does Ada live in Cold Mountain? Why does Ada refuse to leave Cold Mountain when her father dies? How does Ada care for herself? Why does Ada not know how to cook?

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