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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 many warrior wives did the Fon king have?

2. What happens to the body of a man who drowns?

3. What food are the slaves given at night on their second day walking?

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

5. On the night Annis's mother tells her the story of her grandmother, what time is it when they leave the clearing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who comforts Annis after her mother is sold?

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

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

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

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

9. How are Safi and Annis taken south?

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

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in Let Us Descend? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters, especially Annis? How does the point of view help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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