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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. About how many wagon lengths across is the river where the slaves are untied before they ford?
2. What was the man's job who drowns in Chaper 4?
3. Where is Phyllis from who tells Annis about swamps?
4. In Chapter 5, how many of the women can fit in the boat that takes them over the river into New Orleans?
5. Who helps Annis clean up and wash on Christmas morning?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Annis and the others feel after the first day of walking south?
2. How does Annis know how to swim, and how does she use what she knows to ford a river?
3. How did the spirit Aza meet Annis's grandmother?
4. Why do Annis and the other slaves comes to dread the rivers?
5. What does the spirit Aza know about what happened to Annis's mother?
6. Who were Annis's grandparents and how did they become slaves?
7. What is done to try to make Annis and the others easier to sell, and how effective are the things that are done?
8. What does Phyllis know about living in swamps?
9. What does Annis notice on the wall where she and the others are confined and what does she etch?
10. How do Annis and the other women cross a river that is at least five wagon lengths across?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Although life is hard on Annis's sire's plantation, it is even worse at the lady's plantation. Why is life even more difficult for Annis at the lady’s plantation?
Essay Topic 2
Setting is the place or places where a story happens. In what places does Let Us Descend take place? How does Annis feel about the various settings and why?
Essay Topic 3
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in Let Us Descend? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters, especially Annis? How does the point of view help readers connect with and understand characters?
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