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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Mary and Esther come to the lady's plantation?
(a) April.
(b) One in the autumn and one in the spring.
(c) The same season.
(d) June.

2. Which of Phyllis's relatives went into the swamp?
(a) Uncle, aunt, and mother.
(b) Mother and grandmother.
(c) Uncle and nephew.
(d) Mother and Father.

3. What trees does Annis notice as the prepare to cross a river untied?
(a) Cypresses.
(b) Red maples.
(c) Black willows.
(d) Sweetgums.

4. How long after the night Annis and her mother sleep by a ruined tree until dawn, does the Georgia Man come?
(a) Months later.
(b) Weeks later.
(c) 6 months later.
(d) 3 months later.

5. Who rescues Annis when she is finishing making her sire's bed, and he comes into the room?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Safi.
(c) Nan.
(d) Cleo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can Annis smell when she is thrown on the pantry floor after being taken out of the hole?

2. Who helps Annis clean up and wash on Christmas morning?

3. Where does Annis slice herself when she tries to scrabble up past the stakes when she is first put in the hole?

4. Where does Emil go to fetch the thin lady's husband?

5. When the thin lady's husband returns, what does Annis take from the blind mother's lunch plate to eat?

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