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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. Where does the Georgia Man take slaves when they are sold?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) South Carolina.

2. On the night Annis's mother tells her the story of her grandmother, what time is it when they leave the clearing?
(a) Around midnight.
(b) 3 a.m.
(c) 1 a.m.
(d) Just before dawn.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many wagon lengths across is the river where the slaves are untied before they ford?

2. What are the slaves given for breakfast the first morning after Annis and Safi are taken south by the Georgia Man?

3. What do some of the brown women wear that makes Annis believe they are free, not slaves?

4. Who helps Annis clean up and wash on Christmas morning?

5. What trees does Annis notice as the prepare to cross a river untied?

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 does Safi escape?

3. Who comforts Annis after her mother is sold?

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

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

6. Who is Annis's father?

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

8. How are Safi and Annis taken south?

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

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

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