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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. In Chapter 6, how many slaves remain with Annis when Aza returns?

2. When Annis ducks to avoid a spider web with a spider in it, what color is the spider?

3. What food are the slaves given at night on their second day walking?

4. What skill does the woman who buys Annis want her to have?

5. Where was Mama Aza taken when she became the king's wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Annis show Safi her bees?

2. When was the last time that Sasha spoke to Aza?

3. How does Safi escape?

4. What does Annis say the first day she is taken to the pen to be sold to avoid becoming a fancy girl?

5. How are Safi and Annis taken south?

6. How does Annis avoid the sire when she is making his bed in Chapter 1?

7. Why do Annis and the other slaves comes to dread the rivers?

8. What does Phyllis know about living in swamps?

9. How do Annis and the other women cross a river that is at least five wagon lengths across?

10. How were Mama Aza and ther other new sister-wives trained at first?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Annis fondly remembers her mother and their time together. Even when her mother is gone, Annis has a strong emotional connection to Sasha. What is communicated about mother-daughter bonds through the emotional connection Annis has to her mother even when her mother is gone?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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