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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 times does the lady's mother slap her when she tells her daughter it is time for the harvest?

2. How many rabbits does Esther's brother want Annis to take back for his sister?

3. How is Emil punished for breaking a hatchet?

4. What type of mushrooms did Sasha used to call a gift and that she and Annis would gather to feed them, Nan, and her children?

5. Who in Esther's family died of yellow fever?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Annis tempted to do when she brings the mushroom tonic to the man?

2. What does Annis see in a dream when she is in the hole?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Annis learn about the lady?

9. Why does Annis get sent to the hole?

10. How are rats rooted out of the fields?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Annis is not sure that Aza tells the truth. Why does Annis not trust Aza?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The lady’s husband contracts yellow fever and dies. How does the man’s sickness and death affect not only the lady, but Annis and other characters?

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