Extensive Post~Spring Break Quiz on Cold Mountain
Choose one question from
each chapter. Develop your answer
fully, using at least 25 words, and include specific detail. You must convince me that you read thoughtfully
and thoroughly.
Verbs, all of them tiring:
1.
Explain
the process by which Ada rids herself of the piano.
2.
What
memory is triggered in Ada as she watches the piano disappear?
Like any other thing, a gift:
3.
Explain
who Laura is and how and why Veasey is trying to kill her.
4.
Describe
the tribe of gypsies and what they do to Inman.
Ashes of roses:
5.
Explain
who Blount was and what he views were on his role in the Civil War.
6.
Under
what circumstances did Ada spend time with him?
Exile and brute wandering:
7.
What
did Inman and Veasey find to eat at the abandoned home?
8.
How
did they catch the catfish and about how big was it?
9.
What
opinions did Ada express about the war to Mrs. McKennit?
10. What is Ruby’s opinion about
crows in general?
To live like a gamecock:
11. Describe Junior and his
daughter Lula, including their behavior to Inman.
12. Describe the fate of Inman
and Veasey at the hands of the Homeguard.
In place of the truth:
13. Explain what Ada does with
her dress from Charleston.
14. Describe Ada and Inman’s last meeting before he left for the war.
The doing of it:
15. Describe the attitudes and activities of the goat woman.
16. Explain the several things that the goat woman does for Inman.
Free will savages:
17. Explain fully what Stobrod
was doing outside of Ada & Ruby’s barn.
18. Explain what a rattlesnake
has to do with Stobrod’s fiddle.