Cold Mountain Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Cold Mountain? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What's the name of the tinker/peddler who tells Inman about his tragic love life?


Veasey
Smith
Odell
Kennedy
Q. Which classical author does Ada begin reading aloud to Ruby not long after they start working together?


Chaucer
Homer
Aristotle
Virgil
Q. In Ruby's stories about her father, how far does she say he'd walk to go to a party?


2 miles
10 miles
40 miles
60 miles
Q. A Cherokee woman tells Inman a story about a village named Kanuga. What happens in the story?


The people of the village are offered a way to a better world if they fast and come to the Shining Rocks on Cold Mountain
The people of the village are offered a way to a better world if they triumph in battle against an ancient enemy
The people of the village meet talking trees who help them fight against an evil wizard
The people of the village find a sort of food that lets them live forever, but it is only found on the upper slopes of Cold Mountain
Q. There's a story from Ovid at the very end of the epilogue. What is it?


Daphne and Apollo
Venus and Adonis
Baucis and Philemon
Brad Pitt vs. Orlando Bloom