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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kate Talbot resort to in her desperation after seeing her husband's affliction?
(a) She tries to put her husband out of his misery.
(b) She tries to do a spell, hoping it will cure her husband.
(c) She tries to induce labor.
(d) She runs after her husband, who abandoned her.

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

3. What does Anna notice about the will that the rector drew up for Jakob Merrill?
(a) The rector cannot write properlyf
(b) He has actually left the house to his neighbor.
(c) He has forgotten the date and also wrote in the wrong name once.
(d) The will is in Latin.

4. What conclusion does Anna come to about the plague after leaving the Mowbrays?
(a) The plague was sent to weed out the weak.
(b) The plague is not nature or God, but the Devil.
(c) The plague is not the Devil or nature, but God.
(d) The plague is neither God nor Devil, but nature.

5. Why does Anna throw Elinor and Michael's plates against the wall?
(a) She hears Elinor is dead.
(b) They have the plague.
(c) She is angry with the cook.
(d) She is envious of Elinor and the rector's relationship.

6. What predicament was Elinor in after her lover abandoned her?
(a) She was penniless.
(b) She was pregnant.
(c) She was in another country where she didn't speak the language.
(d) She was addicted to poppy.

7. What secret does Elinor reveal about herself to Anna?
(a) That she takes poppy every night so that she may sleep.
(b) That she had been with child once.
(c) That the rector is sick.
(d) That she is getting ready to flee.

8. What does Anna do that snaps the rector out of his daze?
(a) Slaps him across the face.
(b) Throws his food dish at the wall.
(c) Takes Anteros for a ride.
(d) Cuts his cheek with a razor.

9. Why do Anna and Elinor go down into the Wickford mine?
(a) To show that women can to men's work.
(b) To get lead for Merry.
(c) To find herbs that grow underground.
(d) To save Merry Wickford, who is trapped there.

10. Why won't Aphra let Anna keep Faith until she recovers?
(a) She is afraid Anna has the plague and will give it to Faith.
(b) She is afraid Faith has the plague.
(c) She is afraid Anna will badmouth her to her child.
(d) She is afraid Anna will kill Faith in revenge.

11. What business does the rector take care of before mourning Elinor's death?
(a) Goes to Elinor's father to tell the news.
(b) Carves a gravestone.
(c) Cuts his hair and burns it.
(d) Opens up the road and writes the plague has passed.

12. Who comes running toward the group in the middle of the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Mem.
(b) Aphra.
(c) Anna.
(d) Anys.

13. What does Aphra make for Josiah that Anna questions?
(a) A crown of thorns.
(b) A sack of poisonous herbs.
(c) A figure of sticks, not Christian.
(d) A ring of roses.

14. What does the armed woman have in her arms at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Spells.
(b) A serpent.
(c) Faith.
(d) Hope.

15. Why is Elinor looking through the Gowdies' herbs?
(a) She is burning the herbs because they are witchcraft.
(b) She is actually looking for Anys's book of spells.
(c) To see if she can find things that will strengthen the healthy against the plague.
(d) She is looking for more poppy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Anna suspect that Elinor is sick?

2. Where does Anna find Elizabeth Bradford?

3. What new plan does the rector want the townspeople to undertake?

4. What do the rector and Anna see as they ride to the Gordon cottage?

5. What is Anna's father sentenced to?

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