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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 Safi have a mole?

2. How is Emil punished for breaking a hatchet?

3. What does Aza say that Safi heard in her dreams?

4. What does the thin lady's husband ask Annis for as he tries to grab her?

5. In Chapter 10, how long does the lady sit cradling her her husband's body?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Esther's parents die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is a surprising way that mushrooms grow?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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