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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Press of Their Ghosts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Anna ask herself while sitting with Maggie?
(a) Why Maggie was able to save a child, but not hers.
(b) Why Maggie has to die of the plague; she always lived so healthfully.
(c) Why a good person like Maggie cannot find a place to live.
(d) Why a good person like Maggie suffers while her father wastes away in his drunkenness.

2. Who is screaming when Anna wakes up after falling asleep with Tom?
(a) Aphra.
(b) Anna.
(c) Anys.
(d) Mem.

3. Why is Anna crying in the rectory kitchen?
(a) Anna is crying for Elinor's unborn child.
(b) Anna is crying for her father.
(c) Anna is crying for all the dead children.
(d) Anna is crying because she is in love with the rector.

4. What did Sam do when he found out how Anna's father had treated her as a child?
(a) Went to her father's house and punched him in the face.
(b) Went and had a long talk with her father.
(c) Went for a long walk.
(d) Told Anna that children needed to be disciplined severely.

5. What does John Gordon begin to do to try to ward off the plague?
(a) He becomes a priest.
(b) He begins to pray at plague stricken bedsides.
(c) He renounces all religion and becomes an atheist.
(d) He becomes a flagellant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jamie help Anna in the field?

2. What is the condition of the Gordon cottage?

3. What is Josiah doing when Anna gets to the tavern?

4. What do Anna and the rector give Urith Gordon?

5. Where do they finally find John Gordon?

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