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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. Where do the lady and her mother eat on the first day of harvest?
(a) Kitchen.
(b) Dining room.
(c) Front room.
(d) Front porch.

2. When the thin lady's husband returns, what does Annis take from the blind mother's lunch plate to eat?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Beans.
(d) Corn bread.

3. What is the only thing that the lady wants to put sugar in?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Grits.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Tea.

4. What color is the sugar bowl the lady uses?
(a) White edged in yellow.
(b) White edged in blue.
(c) White edged in lavender.
(d) White edged in pink.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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 Annis told to bring to the lady when her husband gets yellow fever?

4. Where does Emil go to fetch the thin lady's husband?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How are rats rooted out of the fields?

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

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

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

5. What does Aza tell Annis happens to the dead?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Annis learn about the lady?

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