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?

 

Source and root

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.