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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 shapes does Annis notice etched into the brick of the walls where she is incarcerated with the others after the doctor's examination?
(a) Squares and triangles.
(b) Sun and a spear.
(c) Stick people.
(d) Crosses and ladders.

2. What feeling does Annis experience in Chapter 4 when she sees the river they are going to have to ford?
(a) Relief.
(b) Horror.
(c) Terror.
(d) Dread.

3. In Chapter 6, how many slaves remain with Annis when Aza returns?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 8.
(d) 15.

4. Who takes Annis's mother's place in the kitchen after she is sold?
(a) Cleo.
(b) Louisa.
(c) Martha.
(d) Annabelle.

5. Who helps Annis clean up and wash on Christmas morning?
(a) Martha.
(b) Cleo.
(c) Nan.
(d) Safi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Annis's mother keep in her hair that came from her own mother?

2. Who does Annis notice using a pirogue on the river where the slaves are untied before they ford?

3. What happens to the body of a man who drowns?

4. What type of horns were tied to Mama Aza's and the other young brides' heads when they went to hunt?

5. In Chapter 5, how many of the women can fit in the boat that takes them over the river into New Orleans?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Safi and Annis taken south?

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

3. Where are Annis and the other slaves taken when they get to New Orleans?

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

5. Who were Annis's grandparents and how did they become slaves?

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

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

8. What does the spirit Aza know about what happened to Annis's mother?

9. How does Annis show Safi her bees?

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

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