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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the rector convince Jakob Merill to leave his house to?
(a) Anna's father.
(b) Elinor Mompellion.
(c) Anna.
(d) Brand Rigney.

2. 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 runs after her husband, who abandoned her.
(d) She tries to induce labor.

3. Where does Anna find Elizabeth Bradford?
(a) In the graveyard.
(b) At her house.
(c) At Anna's cottage.
(d) In the church.

4. What was Anna happy about when she went to sleep after going into the mine?
(a) That she had done something that came out right.
(b) That she had poppy to ease her pain.
(c) That the rector wasn't angry with her.
(d) That it was warming up outside.

5. What one topic do the rector and Elinor have a difference about?
(a) Whether to have children or not.
(b) Whether the plague has ended or not.
(c) What to do with Anna now that the plague is over.
(d) Whether it is safe to flee the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do they finally find John Gordon?

2. How does Jane Martin's behavior change from the beginning of the novel?

3. Why will Anna not testify for her father in court?

4. What is Aphra doing when Anna comes to check on her?

5. Who finishes the sermon for the rector?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anna take to help her sleep? How does it work? How is it dangerous?

2. Why is Anna so angry with the Mowbrays? Who has influenced them to do these actions?

3. What is Anys carrying when she runs at the rector with the knife? How does this spur her to murder Elinor?

4. What does Elinor say when she is delirious? What might this mean? Why does the rector excuse Anna so curtly?

5. What do Anna and Elinor do at the Gowdie cottage?

6. What color do the rector and Elinor wear to the Thanksgiving ceremony? What might this symbolize?

7. Where is Aphra kept overnight? What effect does this have on her? On the villagers?

8. Why is Anna crying in the kitchen? How is it therapeutic for her to tell Elinor her feeling about her father?

9. Why does Aphra blame Anna for her husband's death? What does Anna notice about Aphra when they bury him?

10. Why is the rector summoned to Christopher Unwin's house? Why does Anna see Christopher again later, bloody and naked?

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