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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) Quinine.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Vinegar.
(d) Calomel.

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

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

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

5. What do Annis's people do with the Water when they die?
(a) Rest.
(b) Swim.
(c) Sing.
(d) Chant.

6. 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.

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

8. What type of mushrooms did Sasha used to call a gift and that she and Annis would gather to feed them, Nan, and her children?
(a) Pecan.
(b) Reishi.
(c) Chaga.
(d) Lion's Mane.

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

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

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

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

13. Who are yelled at when Annis and the others have to work in the fields?
(a) A woman and her children.
(b) A crippled man and a crippled woman.
(c) Two older men and a girl.
(d) 3 children.

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

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

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. In Chapter 9 after eating rabbit and mushrooms, what taste does Annis long for?

3. What can Annis smell when she is thrown on the pantry floor after being taken out of the hole?

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

5. What does Mary kill for breakfast the first morning Annis is at the thin woman's plantation?

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