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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 1, what does Annis see rise from a ruined tree at dawn?

2. What name did Annis's mother give her?

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

4. When does Annis take Safi to see the bees?

5. What color was the anmiotic fluid when Sasha was born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Annis notice on the wall where she and the others are confined and what does she etch?

2. Who were Annis's grandparents and how did they become slaves?

3. Who comforts Annis after her mother is sold?

4. Where are Annis and the other slaves taken when they get to New Orleans?

5. How are Safi and Annis taken south?

6. What does the spirit Aza know about what happened to Annis's mother?

7. How did the spirit Aza meet Annis's grandmother?

8. How does Safi escape?

9. Why does Annis's mother take her to a clearing around a lightning-burnt tree?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Annis and the other enslaved are taken to the slave markets in New Orleans. What indignities do Annis and the other slaves experience and why are those experiences so dehumanizing?

Essay Topic 2

Annis cannot stop crying after her mother is taken. Compare and contrast Annis’s grief to the grief of the lady when her husband dies.

Essay Topic 3

Annis gathers mushrooms when the man is sick. What moral dilemma does she face and why when she goes to gather mushrooms?

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