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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 does Annis know the seller wants her to be?
(a) Housemaid.
(b) Child's nurse.
(c) Fancy girl.
(d) Field hand.

2. Where does Annis remember falling and cutting herself when she was younger and running somewhere?
(a) Shoulder.
(b) Forearm.
(c) Thigh.
(d) Calf.

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

4. What are the slaves given for breakfast the first morning after Annis and Safi are taken south by the Georgia Man?
(a) Water.
(b) Cornbread and coffee.
(c) Gruel.
(d) Dried bread and water.

5. What do some of the brown women wear that makes Annis believe they are free, not slaves?
(a) Head wraps.
(b) Bright dresses.
(c) Shell necklaces.
(d) Jewelry.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the seller tell Phyllis she will be?

4. With whom do Annis and her mother share a cabin?

5. What dangerous creatures did one of Phyllis's relatives tell her lived in the swamp?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Annis show Safi her bees?

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

4. How did the spirit Aza meet Annis's grandmother?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Phyllis know about living in swamps?

10. How does Safi escape?

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