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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. Where does Annis remember falling and cutting herself when she was younger and running somewhere?
2. What skill does the woman who buys Annis want her to have?
3. When Annis and Safi are taken away by the Georgia man, how many white men on horses lead the slaves?
4. How long had the slaves been walking when Annis notices Safi trying to work free from the ropes?
5. In Chapter 5, how many of the women can fit in the boat that takes them over the river into New Orleans?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to Annis's mother in Chapter 1?
2. How does Annis know how to swim, and how does she use what she knows to ford a river?
3. How does Annis show Safi her bees?
4. How do Annis and the other women cross a river that is at least five wagon lengths across?
5. How were Mama Aza and ther other new sister-wives trained at first?
6. How do Annis and the others feel after the first day of walking south?
7. Why do Annis and the other slaves comes to dread the rivers?
8. What is the swamp like?
9. What does the spirit Aza know about what happened to Annis's mother?
10. What encounter does Annis have with the woman she has been seeing on the march south?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Personification is a type of figurative language that assigns human characteristics to inanimate objects. How does Ward use personification in Let Us Descend? How does the use of personification assist readers in imagining scenes and objects?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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