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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 does Emil go to fetch the thin lady's husband?

2. Why is Annis sent to the hole?

3. How does Aza say that the Water's song wraps around someone?

4. What is the name of the thin woman's manservant?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a surprising way that mushrooms grow?

2. What is the hole like?

3. What is the plantation like where the lady lives?

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

5. How did Esther's parents die?

6. What does Annis learn about the lady?

7. How are rats rooted out of the fields?

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

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

10. How is the sugar cane harvested?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although life is hard on Annis's sire's plantation, it is even worse at the lady's plantation. Why is life even more difficult for Annis at the lady’s plantation?

Essay Topic 2

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of Let Us Descend? Why is it not historical fiction?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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