View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Annis and the other women outfitted for sale?
(a) Long black dresses, white caps, and aprons.
(b) Long blue dresses, blue caps, and aprons.
(c) Long dark dresses, dark caps, and aprons.
(d) Long brown dresses, brown caps, and aprons.

2. In Chapter 1, what does Annis see rise from a ruined tree at dawn?
(a) Bees.
(b) Swallows.
(c) Bats.
(d) Robins.

3. What does Annis smell when they get to New Orleans?
(a) Evergreen trees.
(b) Burning coffee and shit.
(c) Garbage and urine.
(d) Flowers.

4. How many white men observe Annis before the doctor examines her?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

5. What stopped Annis and the others who trailed after the Georgia Man when their loved ones were sold?
(a) Dogs herded them back.
(b) Crack of a whip.
(c) Gun fired in the air.
(d) Horses herded them back.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what does Annis etch on the wall when she is wakened in the night?

2. When Annis ducks to avoid a spider web with a spider in it, what color is the spider?

3. What does the woman spirit tell Annis to call her?

4. Where was Mama Aza taken when she became the king's wife?

5. How many warrior wives did the Fon king have?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Annis know how to swim, and how does she use what she knows to ford a river?

2. How do Annis and the others feel after the first day of walking south?

3. Why does Annis's mother take her to a clearing around a lightning-burnt tree?

4. Why do Annis and the other slaves comes to dread the rivers?

5. What is done to try to make Annis and the others easier to sell, and how effective are the things that are done?

6. How does Annis show Safi her bees?

7. How does Annis avoid the sire when she is making his bed in Chapter 1?

8. How were Mama Aza and ther other new sister-wives trained at first?

9. What does Phyllis know about living in swamps?

10. Who is Annis's father?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 896 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample