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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 does Annis hear singing in the night after several days of weeding in the fields?

2. How many hands drag Emil off to be punished when he breaks a hatchet?

3. How many wagons are for loading the cane?

4. Who did Camille leave behind when she was sold?

5. What does Cora say is the best to eat when they can get it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Esther's parents die?

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

3. How is the sugar cane harvested?

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

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

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

7. Why does Annis get sent to the hole?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Personification is a type of figurative language that assigns human characteristics to inanimate objects. How does Ward use personification in Let Us Descend? How does the use of personification assist readers in imagining scenes and objects?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Annis is thrown in the hole because the husband of the lady makes advances. What does Annis learn from being thrown into the hole?

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