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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many rabbits does Esther's brother want Annis to take back for his sister?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. Where did Esther's grandmother come from?
(a) Atchafalaya.
(b) Terre Gaillarde
(c) Plaquemine.
(d) Thibodaux.

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) Puts it on the compost pile.
(c) Puts it on the burn pile.
(d) Waters the garden.

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

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

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

9. What does Annis liken the song to that she hears in the night at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Warm corn bread.
(b) Leftovers in a skillet.
(c) Crust of pie around the edges of a pan.
(d) Sweet summer berries.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do They Who Take and Give call Annis?

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

3. 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?

4. For what medicinal purpose can dead-man's fingers be used?

5. What is the song about that Annis hears in the night after several days of weeding?

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