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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 do the dead rats bring if they are not burned?
(a) Raccoons and weasels.
(b) Crows, raccoons, and skunks.
(c) Coyotes and foxes.
(d) Buzzards, possum, and armadillos.

2. How many are weeding when everyone is sent to the fields in Chapter 8?
(a) 150.
(b) 200.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Hundreds.

3. Where does Annis begin to get a headache as she waits on the lady and her mother at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Top of her head.
(b) Left eye.
(c) Center of her forehead.
(d) Right eye.

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

5. What brand did Esther's grandmother and mother have on their cheeks?
(a) T.
(b) M.
(c) X.
(d) Z.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aza say that Safi heard in her dreams?

2. What is the song about that Annis hears in the night after several days of weeding?

3. How many wagons are for loading the cane?

4. How is Emil punished for breaking a hatchet?

5. What color hair does the thin lady's husband have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Annis realize that Aza wants from her?

5. What is a surprising way that mushrooms grow?

6. How is the sugar cane harvested?

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

8. What does Annis learn about the lady?

9. How did Esther's parents die?

10. What does Cora tell Annis about when Mary and Esther came to the lady's plantation?

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