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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Annis put inside a hole she digs as an offering to the earth?
(a) Dead rat.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Scraps of food.
(d) Blood.

3. How does Aza say that the Water's song wraps around someone?
(a) Like a flood.
(b) Like a baptsim.
(c) Like a tornado.
(d) Like a hurricane.

4. What does Emil tell Annis and the others is being grown on the thin woman's planation?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Rice.
(d) Sugarcane.

5. What does Annis do with water used to wash the husband's body after it is moved from the bedroom?
(a) Waters the flowers.
(b) Waters the garden.
(c) Puts it on the compost pile.
(d) Puts it on the burn pile.

6. Where did Sasha try to run with Annis long ago?
(a) The Great Swamp.
(b) Michigan.
(c) The woods.
(d) Illinois.

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

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

9. Where is the body of the lady's dead husband carried on the fourth day after his death?
(a) Back porch.
(b) Front parlor.
(c) Side porch.
(d) Verandah.

10. How many memories does the earth give Annis when she digs a hole and puts something inside as an offering?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

11. What memory does Annis try to hold onto as she is dragged to the hole?
(a) Her bees.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Safia.
(d) Her clearing.

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

13. What does Cora do when Annis comments that Mary sings?
(a) She claps her hand over her mouth.
(b) She pulls her apron over her face.
(c) She drops a pot.
(d) She purses her lips.

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

15. What does Cora say is the best to eat when they can get it?
(a) Alligator.
(b) Deer.
(c) Crocodile.
(d) Goose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What brand did Esther's grandmother and mother have on their cheeks?

2. In Chapter 9, what does Cora dream that her mother fixes her to eat?

3. When Mama Aza and her soldier fled, how many nights did they run before they wre caught?

4. What does the lady do when Annis brings tonic for the man?

5. When Annis talks to Aza in Chapter 10 about the different worlds and currents between them, what does she trip on?

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