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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feeling does Annis experience in Chapter 4 when she sees the river they are going to have to ford?
(a) Dread.
(b) Horror.
(c) Terror.
(d) Relief.

2. What skill does the woman who buys Annis want her to have?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Laundering.
(d) Sewing.

3. What does Mary kill for breakfast the first morning Annis is at the thin woman's plantation?
(a) Rabbit.
(b) Snake.
(c) Squirrel.
(d) Turtle.

4. From what surprising place did Mama Aza teach Sasha mushrooms could sprout from?
(a) Insects.
(b) Moss.
(c) Decomposing leaves.
(d) Manure.

5. Who in Esther's family died of yellow fever?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shapes does Annis notice etched into the brick of the walls where she is incarcerated with the others after the doctor's examination?

2. What happens to the body of a man who drowns?

3. What does Cora say is the best to eat when they can get it?

4. How many are weeding when everyone is sent to the fields in Chapter 8?

5. For what medicinal purpose can dead-man's fingers be used?

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