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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What food are the slaves given at night on their second day walking?
(a) Hard food.
(b) Oatmeal.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Bread.

2. When Annis and Safi are taken away by the Georgia man, how many white men on horses lead the slaves?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

3. What does the woman spirit tell Annis to call her?
(a) Sasha.
(b) Aza.
(c) Ayana.
(d) Sade.

4. What does Annis's mother do when she sees the Georgia man?
(a) Goes to her cabin.
(b) Runs.
(c) Fights.
(d) Cries.

5. What did Mama Aza have to run with to toughen her up when she met the oldest of the king's warrior wives?
(a) Bundle.
(b) Stick.
(c) Jar.
(d) Pack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became Mama Aza's lover before she became a slave?

2. What color hair does Annis's sire have?

3. How often do Annis and her mother come to a lightning-burned tree to practice fighting?

4. In Chapter 1, what does Annis see rise from a ruined tree at dawn?

5. Who takes Annis's mother's place in the kitchen after she is sold?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the swamp like?

3. What happens to Annis's mother in Chapter 1?

4. How do Annis and the other women cross a river that is at least five wagon lengths across?

5. How does Annis show Safi her bees?

6. How are Safi and Annis taken south?

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

8. What does Phyllis know about living in swamps?

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

10. What encounter does Annis have with the woman she has been seeing on the march south?

(see the answer keys)

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