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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Annis told to bring to the lady when her husband gets yellow fever?
(a) Vinegar.
(b) Quinine.
(c) Calomel.
(d) Mercury.

2. What do the dead rats bring if they are not burned?
(a) Coyotes and foxes.
(b) Crows, raccoons, and skunks.
(c) Raccoons and weasels.
(d) Buzzards, possum, and armadillos.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

11. In Chapter 9, what does Cora dream that her mother fixes her to eat?
(a) Squash.
(b) Soup.
(c) Bread.
(d) Green tomatoes.

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

13. Where does Emil go to fetch the thin lady's husband?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Shreveport.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Birmingham.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Emil punished for breaking a hatchet?

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

3. In Chapter 7, how many including Annis follow the thin woman?

4. What wakes Annis, Esther, Mary, and Cora at the end of Chapter 9?

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

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