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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. Where did Esther's grandmother come from?

2. Who wakes Annis the morning after she is released from the hole?

3. What color mushroom does Annis look for to heal the man from yellow fever?

4. In Chapter 7, how many including Annis follow the thin woman?

5. In Chapter 9 after eating rabbit and mushrooms, what taste does Annis long for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Annis realize that Aza wants from her?

2. Where does the lady go after she buys Annis?

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

4. How is the sugar cane harvested?

5. What does Aza tell Annis happens to the dead?

6. How did Esther's parents die?

7. How are rats rooted out of the fields?

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

9. How does the lady's mother get her to tend to the harvest?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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