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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. During the harvest, what color horses do the bosses and hands ride?

2. When the thin lady's husband returns, what does Annis take from the blind mother's lunch plate to eat?

3. What does Annis put inside a hole she digs as an offering to the earth?

4. What symptoms of yellow fever did Esther's family have?

5. What brand did Esther's grandmother and mother have on their cheeks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What encounter does Annis have with Bastian, Esther's brother?

2. What memory of running does Annis have after she buries her hair?

3. What happens to Emil when he damages a hatchet?

4. What wakes Annis and the others at the end of Chapter 9?

5. What does Cora tell Annis about when Mary and Esther came to the lady's plantation?

6. Why does the lady's husband stay in New Orleans most of the time?

7. What wakens Annis in the night at the end of Chapter 8?

8. Where do the lady and her mother eat at the end of Chapter 10, and what conversation to they have?

9. How are rats rooted out of the fields?

10. How is the sugar cane harvested?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Annis and the other enslaved are taken to the slave markets in New Orleans. What indignities do Annis and the other slaves experience and why are those experiences so dehumanizing?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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