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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the woman with to daughters who works with Esther and Annis unloading a wagon of cane?
(a) Bertha.
(b) Lucille.
(c) Helen.
(d) Martha.

3. What is the song about that Annis hears in the night after several days of weeding?
(a) St. Malo.
(b) A lover.
(c) Freedom.
(d) The woods.

4. Who wakes Annis the morning after she is released from the hole?
(a) Esther.
(b) Cora.
(c) Mary.
(d) Camille.

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

6. Why is Annis sent to the hole?
(a) The thin woman's husband wants to rape her.
(b) She trips and spills milk.
(c) She drops a dish at dinner.
(d) She gets dirt on the floor.

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

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

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

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

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

12. How much food does Annis have to last the day in Chapter 9?
(a) A few bites of snake.
(b) A few spoonfuls of coked mushrooms.
(c) One thin corn cake.
(d) A few spoonfuls of cooked oats.

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

14. When Annis disposes of the water to wash the husband's body, what does Aza stir that makes noise?
(a) Pine boughs.
(b) Branches of an oak.
(c) Corn stalks.
(d) Branches of a willow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Emil go to fetch the thin lady's husband?

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

3. When the thin lady's husband returns, what does Annis take from the blind mother's lunch plate to eat?

4. How many days does the lady locked herself in the room with her dead husband?

5. What memory does Annis try to hold onto as she is dragged to the hole?

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