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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Safi have a mole?
(a) On her left cheek.
(b) On her right cheek.
(c) On her lips.
(d) On her forehead.

3. What brand did Esther's grandmother and mother have on their cheeks?
(a) M.
(b) T.
(c) X.
(d) Z.

4. Where does Annis slice herself when she tries to scrabble up past the stakes when she is first put in the hole?
(a) Cheek, hand, and side.
(b) Ankle and thigh.
(c) Arm, calf, and side of her face.
(d) Shoulder and forearm.

5. Where do the lady and her mother eat on the first day of harvest?
(a) Dining room.
(b) Kitchen.
(c) Front room.
(d) Front porch.

6. For what medicinal purpose can dead-man's fingers be used?
(a) Coughs.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Digestion.
(d) Appetite.

7. What wakes Annis, Esther, Mary, and Cora at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Shouting outside.
(b) The lady wailing.
(c) Dogs barking.
(d) The doctor.

8. When Mama Aza and her soldier fled, how many nights did they run before they wre caught?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

10. Who does Annis hear singing in the night after several days of weeding in the fields?
(a) Mary.
(b) Cora.
(c) Esther.
(d) The husband.

11. When the thin lady's husband returns, what does Annis take from the blind mother's lunch plate to eat?
(a) Beans.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Corn bread.
(d) Vegetables.

12. How many hands drag Emil off to be punished when he breaks a hatchet?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

13. What does the thin lady's husband ask Annis for as he tries to grab her?
(a) Water.
(b) Milk.
(c) Brandy.
(d) Wine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in Esther's family died of yellow fever?

2. How many hands drag Annis to the hole?

3. What does Emil tell Annis and the others is being grown on the thin woman's planation?

4. What does Aza say that Safi heard in her dreams?

5. Besides despair, what did They Who Take and Give show Annis that the slaves had running through them?

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