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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. How often do Annis and her mother come to a lightning-burned tree to practice fighting?

2. What are the slaves given for breakfast the first morning after Annis and Safi are taken south by the Georgia Man?

3. What trees does Annis notice as the prepare to cross a river untied?

4. Who does Annis notice using a pirogue on the river where the slaves are untied before they ford?

5. What color hair does Annis's sire have?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Safi escape?

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

4. Who comforts Annis after her mother is sold?

5. How does Annis show Safi her bees?

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

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

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

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

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 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

Backstories are used to present information about events that happened before events in a novel. How do backstories provide insight into characters and events? What is the importance of backstories in Let Us Descend?

Essay Topic 3

In Let Us Descend, some characters are more thoroughly described than others. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the storyline? What role do these characters play in Let Us Descend and how do they support or hinder Annis? When there is conflict, what role do these flat characters play?

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