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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. When does Annis take Safi to see the bees?

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

3. What stopped Annis and the others who trailed after the Georgia Man when their loved ones were sold?

4. Where does the Georgia Man take slaves when they are sold?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are Safi and Annis taken south?

3. How does Safi escape?

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

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

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

7. How does Annis know how to swim, and how does she use what she knows to ford a river?

8. What is the swamp like?

9. What encounter does Annis have with the woman she has been seeing on the march south?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Novels can be structured and divided in different ways. How does the structure of a novel provide clarity and flow to a story? What are chapter titles? What are some purposes of chapter titles? How does Ward use chapter titles in Let Us Descend?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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