This pair of lovers estranged by the war serve as the novel's protagonists
Who are Ada and Inman?
100
Though both Inman and Stobrod survive being shot by this group once, they end up causing Inman's, and the story's, downfall
What is the Home Guard?
100
Inman identifies with these birds because of their freedom from constraints
What are crows?
100
“But after such wet and miserable nights as he had recently passed, Inman felt like God’s most marauded bantling”
What is a simile?
100
The state where the battle of Fredericksburg was fought and the side that won.
What are Virginia and the Confederacy?
200
This is a young woman who is very self-sufficient; she helps Ada rebuild the farm and her life.
Who is Ruby?
200
This is the reason Inman is in the hospital, which gives him an opportunity to desert the army.
What is a bullet wound?
200
As these change, so do the characters. These represent both emotional and physical transformations.
What are seasons?
200
“They had tied Inman and Veasey onto a string of prisoners and shoved them all against the wall of the smokehouse. None of the tied men had said a worrd. They moved to the wall with barely more animation than a parade of cadavers”
What is a hyperbole?
200
19,000 of these occurred at Fredericksburg
What are casualties?
300
This is Ruby's absentee alcoholic father who deserts from the war and is a skilled fiddler.
Who is Stobrod?
300
This is the battle that continually gives Inman nightmares. The dream involves an injured soldier looking up at him and whispering his name.
What is Fredericksburg?
300
In Cold Mountain this symbol represents the human struggle, including love, sadness, and death.
What is music?
300
“Crows will relish what presents itself. She admired their keenness of wit, lack of pridefulness, love of practical jokes, slyness in a fight”
What is a list?
300
The side of the Civil War that lost more of its army to deserters like Inman
What is the Confederacy?
400
This is Cold Mountain's old preacher who lost his wife to the birth of his daughter Ada.
Who is Monroe?
400
Cold Mountain strongly resembles this literary work, written in the 8th century BC
What is the Odyssey?
400
Name the following colors respectively. One of these colors symbolizes life and substance. The other is symbolic of death and emptiness.
What are black and white?
400
“Two lanterns hung from the rafters. Their light seemed diluted by the water and served little purpose other than to glint off puddles and to cast everything into gloomy contrast. All the highlights and points of things were picked out by the light. Rain dripped steadily off the overhand and Inman thought of Longstreet’s comment at Fredericksburg: Federals falling as steady as rain dripping off an eave” (166)
What is imagery?
400
The number one cause of death for soldiers
What is disease?
500
This is an abusive, deceitful man who turns Inman and Veasey over to the Home Guard.
Who is Junior?
500
The statement made about the physical and emotional destruction of war and the importance of pushing through in order to not be overtaken.
What is the overarching argument?
500
This symbol represents the continuation and progression of life, from despair to happiness, and all of the stumbling in between.
What is Cold Mountain?
500
“Before the war he had never been much of a one for strife. But once enlisted, fighting had come easy to him. He had decided it was like any other thing, a gift. Like a man who could whittle birds out of wood.”
What is an analogy?
500
These are main characters, and are in distinct relationships throughout the novel.