Let Us Descend Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Jesmyn Ward
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 182 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Let Us Descend Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Jesmyn Ward
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 182 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 color hair does Annis's sire have?
(a) Blond.
(b) Red.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

2. What does the seller tell Phyllis she will be?
(a) Sick nurse.
(b) Child's nurse.
(c) Lady's maid.
(d) Seamstress.

3. What happens to the body of a man who drowns?
(a) Left to float down the river.
(b) Stuffed in a cave.
(c) Left to rot on the riverbank.
(d) Buried under a willow.

4. What animal were Mama Aza and the other women sent to kill?
(a) Elephant.
(b) Lion.
(c) Tiger.
(d) Hippopotamus.

5. When does Annis take Safi to see the bees?
(a) Summer.
(b) When the tobacco fields bloom.
(c) When the rice grows tall.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Annis's mother do when she sees the Georgia man?

3. What name does Annis keep repeating on the march at the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. In Chapter 6, how many slaves remain with Annis when Aza returns?

5. What shapes does Annis notice etched into the brick of the walls where she is incarcerated with the others after the doctor's examination?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who comforts Annis after her mother is sold?

3. When was the last time that Sasha spoke to Aza?

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

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

6. What does Annis say the first day she is taken to the pen to be sold to avoid becoming a fancy girl?

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

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

9. What does Phyllis know about living in swamps?

10. How does Annis show Safi her bees?

(see the answer keys)

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