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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. With whom do Annis and her mother share a cabin?

2. Where are Annis and the other slaves housed after they arrive in New Orleans?

3. What does Annis know the seller wants her to be?

4. In Chapter 5, how many of the women can fit in the boat that takes them over the river into New Orleans?

5. What does the seller tell Phyllis she will be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is done to try to make Annis and the others easier to sell, and how effective are the things that are done?

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

3. How does Annis show Safi her bees?

4. How are Safi and Annis taken south?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Phyllis know about living in swamps?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Annis and other slaves are taken on a forced march south to be sold at slave markets in New Orleans. What are the conditions on the march? Were the slaves treated humanely or inhumanely?

Essay Topic 2

The lady’s husband contracts yellow fever and dies. How does the man’s sickness and death affect not only the lady, but Annis and other characters?

Essay Topic 3

Annis is thrown in the hole because the husband of the lady makes advances. What does Annis learn from being thrown into the hole?

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