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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 do the lady and her mother eat on the first day of harvest?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 9, what does Annis bring for Cora to cook to eat?

3. Where did Safi have a mole?

4. What is the song about that Annis hears in the night after several days of weeding?

5. What do They Who Take and Give call Annis?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the sugar cane harvested?

3. What is the hole like?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Annis fondly remembers her mother and their time together. Even when her mother is gone, Annis has a strong emotional connection to Sasha. What is communicated about mother-daughter bonds through the emotional connection Annis has to her mother even when her mother is gone?

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