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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 much food does Annis have to last the day in Chapter 9?
(a) One thin corn cake.
(b) A few spoonfuls of coked mushrooms.
(c) A few bites of snake.
(d) A few spoonfuls of cooked oats.

2. Who eats dinner with the thin lady at the plantation?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Her children and husband.
(d) Her mother.

3. In Chapter 7, how many including Annis follow the thin woman?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

4. Who does Annis hear singing in the night after several days of weeding in the fields?
(a) Esther.
(b) Mary.
(c) The husband.
(d) Cora.

5. How many times does the lady's mother slap her when she tells her daughter it is time for the harvest?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What memory does Annis try to hold onto as she is dragged to the hole?

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

3. What does the lady do when Annis brings tonic for the man?

4. Where does Annis slice herself when she tries to scrabble up past the stakes when she is first put in the hole?

5. When the thin lady's husband returns, what does Annis take from the blind mother's lunch plate to eat?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Annis get sent to the hole?

3. What is the plantation like where the lady lives?

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

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

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

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

8. What is a surprising way that mushrooms grow?

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

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

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