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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. What does Annis offer to do for Safi when Annis notices she is trying to work her ropes loose?
2. What animal were Mama Aza and the other women sent to kill?
3. With whom do Annis and her mother share a cabin?
4. What does Annis's mother do when she sees the Georgia man?
5. How many feet do Annis and the others have to swim in the river they ford?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Annis's mother take her to a clearing around a lightning-burnt tree?
2. How does Annis avoid the sire when she is making his bed in Chapter 1?
3. How did the spirit Aza meet Annis's grandmother?
4. Why do Annis and the other slaves comes to dread the rivers?
5. What does Annis notice on the wall where she and the others are confined and what does she etch?
6. What encounter does Annis have with the woman she has been seeing on the march south?
7. What does the spirit Aza know about what happened to Annis's mother?
8. What does Annis say the first day she is taken to the pen to be sold to avoid becoming a fancy girl?
9. What is done to try to make Annis and the others easier to sell, and how effective are the things that are done?
10. What is the swamp like?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Setting is the place or places where a story happens. In what places does Let Us Descend take place? How does Annis feel about the various settings and why?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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