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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 stop dreaming of her mother so often.

2. Who became Mama Aza's lover before she became a slave?

3. What color sack dresses are Annis and the other slave women given to wear?

4. When Annis and Safi are taken away by the Georgia man, how many white men on horses lead the slaves?

5. How many warrior wives did the Fon king have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Annis's mother in Chapter 1?

2. What does Phyllis know about living in swamps?

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

4. How does Annis show Safi her bees?

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

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

7. Who is Annis's father?

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

9. How does Safi escape?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Annis gathers mushrooms when the man is sick. What moral dilemma does she face and why when she goes to gather mushrooms?

Essay Topic 2

A character arc shows how a character begins as one type of character and transforms into a different, more mature type of person due to interaction with other characters and developments in the book. How does Annis mature and change in Let Us Descend? Why is her maturation a character arc?

Essay Topic 3

Dialogue tags help identify who is speaking in a written conversation. What would happen if dialogue tags were never used to identify who is speaking in a written conversation in Let Us Descend? What are some common dialogue tags used to identify speakers in conversations? What descriptive dialogue tags Ward used, especially in the first conversation Annis has with Bastian? How do those dialogue tags help readers imagine scenes? How do they add another layer of description?

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