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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. How many fires are lit the first night that Annis and Safi stop on their journey south with the Georgia Man?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

3. How many feet do Annis and the others have to swim in the river they ford?
(a) 2 feet.
(b) 5 feet.
(c) A couple feet.
(d) A few feet.

4. How long after the night Annis and her mother sleep by a ruined tree until dawn, does the Georgia Man come?
(a) 6 months later.
(b) Months later.
(c) Weeks later.
(d) 3 months later.

5. About how many wagon lengths across is the river where the slaves are untied before they ford?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Annis stop dreaming of her mother so often.

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

4. Where is Phyllis from who tells Annis about swamps?

5. Who taught Annis to swim?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Phyllis know about living in swamps?

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

4. What does Annis notice on the wall where she and the others are confined and what does she etch?

5. How are Safi and Annis taken south?

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

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

8. How does Safi escape?

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

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

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