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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 memory does Annis try to hold onto as she is dragged to the hole?
(a) Her clearing.
(b) Her bees.
(c) Safia.
(d) Her mother.

2. What does Aza say that Safi heard in her dreams?
(a) Chains rattling.
(b) Babies crying.
(c) Singing of the stars.
(d) Singing of the Water.

3. What was the name of the leader of the place where Esther's grandmother came from?
(a) St. Andrew.
(b) St. Malo.
(c) Reuben.
(d) David.

4. How many hands drag Emil off to be punished when he breaks a hatchet?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

5. From what surprising place did Mama Aza teach Sasha mushrooms could sprout from?
(a) Insects.
(b) Moss.
(c) Decomposing leaves.
(d) Manure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Nan eat when she was pregnant and her belly would grow?

2. 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?

3. What is the name of the woman with to daughters who works with Esther and Annis unloading a wagon of cane?

4. How many times does the lady's mother slap her when she tells her daughter it is time for the harvest?

5. Besides despair, what did They Who Take and Give show Annis that the slaves had running through them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Annis learn about the lady?

2. Where did Esther's grandmother live, and what happened to her and the people in the settlement?

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

4. Where do the lady and her mother eat at the end of Chapter 10, and what conversation to they have?

5. How is the sugar cane harvested?

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

7. What is the hole like?

8. What encounter does Annis have with Bastian, Esther's brother?

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

10. What do Annis and the others eat in the morning in Chapter 9?

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