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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the thin woman's manservant?
(a) David.
(b) Louis.
(c) Emil.
(d) Moses.

3. What color hair does the thin lady's husband have?
(a) Blond.
(b) Salt and pepper.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

4. In Chapter 7, how many including Annis follow the thin woman?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

6. 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) Vegetables.
(d) Corn bread.

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

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

9. How old does Annis think the housemaids, Esther and Mary, are?
(a) Late teens.
(b) 16 and 18.
(c) Not yet in their twenties.
(d) 17 and 19.

10. How many hands drag Annis to the hole?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

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

13. Besides despair, what did They Who Take and Give show Annis that the slaves had running through them?
(a) Hope.
(b) Desire.
(c) Anguish.
(d) Disheartenment.

14. What color is the sugar bowl the lady uses?
(a) White edged in blue.
(b) White edged in yellow.
(c) White edged in pink.
(d) White edged in lavender.

15. What symptoms of yellow fever did Esther's family have?
(a) Delirium.
(b) Bleeding.
(c) Nausea and vomiting.
(d) Yellow skin and eyes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Annis do with water used to wash the husband's body after it is moved from the bedroom?

3. What does the thin lady's husband ask Annis for as he tries to grab her?

4. What do the dead rats bring if they are not burned?

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

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