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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. Who are yelled at when Annis and the others have to work in the fields?

2. How many are weeding when everyone is sent to the fields in Chapter 8?

3. In Chapter 9, what does Cora dream that her mother fixes her to eat?

4. How is Emil punished for breaking a hatchet?

5. What does the lady do when Annis brings tonic for the man?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a surprising way that mushrooms grow?

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

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

5. What do Annis and the others eat in the morning in Chapter 9?

6. Where did Esther's grandmother live, and what happened to her and the people in the settlement?

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

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

9. How did Esther's parents die?

10. What is the hole like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Annis and other slaves are taken on a forced march south to be sold at slave markets in New Orleans. What are the conditions on the march? Were the slaves treated humanely or inhumanely?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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