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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 can Annis smell when she is thrown on the pantry floor after being taken out of the hole?
(a) Roast.
(b) Cake.
(c) Pork fat.
(d) Stew.

2. What does Cora do when Annis comments that Mary sings?
(a) She pulls her apron over her face.
(b) She purses her lips.
(c) She claps her hand over her mouth.
(d) She drops a pot.

3. In Chapter 9 after eating rabbit and mushrooms, what taste does Annis long for?
(a) Parsley.
(b) Rosemary.
(c) Sage.
(d) Salt.

4. What wakes Annis, Esther, Mary, and Cora at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Shouting outside.
(b) The doctor.
(c) Dogs barking.
(d) The lady wailing.

5. How many memories does the earth give Annis when she digs a hole and puts something inside as an offering?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Safi have a mole?

2. What brand did Esther's grandmother and mother have on their cheeks?

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

4. Who eats dinner with the thin lady at the plantation?

5. Where does Annis begin to get a headache as she waits on the lady and her mother at the end of Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the hole like?

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

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

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

7. Why does Annis get sent to the hole?

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

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

10. What is a surprising way that mushrooms grow?

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