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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. Why is Annis sent to the hole?
(a) She drops a dish at dinner.
(b) The thin woman's husband wants to rape her.
(c) She trips and spills milk.
(d) She gets dirt on the floor.

2. Where is the body of the lady's dead husband carried on the fourth day after his death?
(a) Side porch.
(b) Verandah.
(c) Front parlor.
(d) Back porch.

3. What does Annis put inside a hole she digs as an offering to the earth?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Blood.
(c) Scraps of food.
(d) Dead rat.

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

5. What does Cora say is the best to eat when they can get it?
(a) Deer.
(b) Alligator.
(c) Crocodile.
(d) Goose.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 9, what does Cora dream that her mother fixes her to eat?

3. Where did Sasha try to run with Annis long ago?

4. Who wakes Annis the morning after she is released from the hole?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 9, what does Annis bring for Cora to cook to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a surprising way that mushrooms grow?

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

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

4. How is the sugar cane harvested?

5. What wakens Annis in the night at the end of Chapter 8?

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

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

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

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

10. What happens to Emil when he damages a hatchet?

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