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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the man's job who drowns in Chaper 4?
(a) Tended the horses.
(b) Field hand.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Gardener.

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

3. What type of horns were tied to Mama Aza's and the other young brides' heads when they went to hunt?
(a) Springbok.
(b) Giraffe.
(c) Impala.
(d) Antelope.

4. What color was the anmiotic fluid when Sasha was born?
(a) Milky.
(b) Blue.
(c) Clear.
(d) Purple.

5. What does Annis's mother keep in her hair that came from her own mother?
(a) An awl made from a a bone.
(b) An awl made from an elephant's tusk.
(c) An awl made from iron.
(d) An awl made from wood.

6. In Chapter 6, what is a woman calling who wakes Annis in the night?
(a) Mama.
(b) Please.
(c) Mam.
(d) Help.

7. From whom did Mama Aza learn about mushrooms?
(a) A sister-wife.
(b) An older woman of the Original People.
(c) Her mother.
(d) A matriarch on the plantation.

8. What shapes does Annis notice etched into the brick of the walls where she is incarcerated with the others after the doctor's examination?
(a) Stick people.
(b) Sun and a spear.
(c) Squares and triangles.
(d) Crosses and ladders.

9. What food are the slaves given at night on their second day walking?
(a) Oatmeal.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Bread.
(d) Hard food.

10. Where are Annis and the other slaves housed after they arrive in New Orleans?
(a) Corrals.
(b) On the sand under flat roofs.
(c) Low brick buildings.
(d) Barns.

11. Of the women in Annis's family that the spirit walked with, how many women before Annis did the spirit walk with?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

12. What happens to the body of a man who drowns?
(a) Left to rot on the riverbank.
(b) Buried under a willow.
(c) Left to float down the river.
(d) Stuffed in a cave.

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

14. What does Annis smell when they get to New Orleans?
(a) Garbage and urine.
(b) Evergreen trees.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Burning coffee and shit.

15. Where is Phyllis from who tells Annis about swamps?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Tennessee.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom do Annis and her mother share a cabin?

2. What did Mama Aza have to run with to toughen her up when she met the oldest of the king's warrior wives?

3. In Chapter 6, how many slaves remain with Annis when Aza returns?

4. What color can Annis see shot through the river when she thinks the river is speaking to her?

5. What animal were Mama Aza and the other women sent to kill?

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