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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 do with water used to wash the husband's body after it is moved from the bedroom?
(a) Waters the garden.
(b) Waters the flowers.
(c) Puts it on the compost pile.
(d) Puts it on the burn pile.

2. Where did Esther's grandmother come from?
(a) Thibodaux.
(b) Plaquemine.
(c) Terre Gaillarde
(d) Atchafalaya.

3. What wakes Annis, Esther, Mary, and Cora at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) The lady wailing.
(b) The doctor.
(c) Dogs barking.
(d) Shouting outside.

4. What type of mushrooms did Sasha used to call a gift and that she and Annis would gather to feed them, Nan, and her children?
(a) Lion's Mane.
(b) Pecan.
(c) Reishi.
(d) Chaga.

5. In Chapter 10, how long does the lady sit cradling her her husband's body?
(a) Until afternoon.
(b) Until sunset.
(c) Until noon.
(d) Until mid-morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Annis liken the song to that she hears in the night at the end of Chapter 8?

2. How drowsy is Annis when she is removed from the hole?

3. How many hands drag Emil off to be punished when he breaks a hatchet?

4. How many rabbits does Esther's brother want Annis to take back for his sister?

5. How many memories does the earth give Annis when she digs a hole and puts something inside as an offering?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the lady go after she buys Annis?

2. What is Annis tempted to do when she brings the mushroom tonic to the man?

3. What wakes Annis and the others at the end of Chapter 9?

4. Why does the lady's husband stay in New Orleans most of the time?

5. What memory of running does Annis have after she buries her hair?

6. What is a surprising way that mushrooms grow?

7. How are rats rooted out of the fields?

8. How does the lady's mother get her to tend to the harvest?

9. What does Annis see in a dream when she is in the hole?

10. How did Esther's parents die?

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