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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days does the lady locked herself in the room with her dead husband?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

2. How many times does the lady's mother slap her when she tells her daughter it is time for the harvest?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

3. What would Nan eat when she was pregnant and her belly would grow?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Roots.
(c) Clay.
(d) Bark.

4. Who did Camille leave behind when she was sold?
(a) A daughter.
(b) A husband and a daughter.
(c) A husband and a son.
(d) A son.

5. What is the song about that Annis hears in the night after several days of weeding?
(a) The woods.
(b) A lover.
(c) Freedom.
(d) St. Malo.

6. How many wagons are for loading the cane?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

7. How many are weeding when everyone is sent to the fields in Chapter 8?
(a) 200.
(b) Thousands.
(c) 150.
(d) Hundreds.

8. What is the only thing that the lady wants to put sugar in?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Tea.
(d) Grits.

9. What do They Who Take and Give call Annis?
(a) Burrowing owl.
(b) Gopher.
(c) Hare.
(d) Rabbit.

10. During the harvest, what color horses do the bosses and hands ride?
(a) Gray and dun.
(b) Brown and red.
(c) Black and white.
(d) Black and gray.

11. What does Aza say that Safi heard in her dreams?
(a) Chains rattling.
(b) Babies crying.
(c) Singing of the Water.
(d) Singing of the stars.

12. Who eats dinner with the thin lady at the plantation?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Her children and husband.
(d) Her husband.

13. What is the name of the woman with to daughters who works with Esther and Annis unloading a wagon of cane?
(a) Helen.
(b) Lucille.
(c) Bertha.
(d) Martha.

14. What color mushroom does Annis look for to heal the man from yellow fever?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Cream.
(c) Red.
(d) Orange.

15. What does the lady do when Annis brings tonic for the man?
(a) Slaps Annis.
(b) Thanks Annis.
(c) Yells at Annis.
(d) Kicks Annis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Aza say that the Water's song wraps around someone?

3. From what surprising place did Mama Aza teach Sasha mushrooms could sprout from?

4. Where does Annis begin to get a headache as she waits on the lady and her mother at the end of Chapter 10?

5. How is Emil punished for breaking a hatchet?

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