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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 comes running toward the group in the middle of the Thanksgiving service?

2. Why is Anna disgusted with the rector?

3. What does Anna take from the Hadfields to help her sleep?

4. What is the name of Anna and Mompellion's child?

5. Who is able to subdue the angry woman at the Thanksgiving service?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Anna hope she will find relief? How does her knowledge of herbs comfort her?

2. What path has John Gordon taken? How does he meet his end?

3. How does the rector react to Elinor and Anna's actions? What is odd about his reaction when he first sees them?

4. What makes Anna even angrier as she leaves the Mowbrays'? What conclusion does she consider as a result of this?

5. Why doesn't Anna use the letter of introduction the rector wrote for her? What danger lurks for her if she isn't careful?

6. What child do Anna and Elinor help? What do they do to help this child?

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

8. What image of Elinor's death does the author convey? What might this symbolize or show about Anna's view of Elinor?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about Anna's questioning of her faith throughout the novel. What events cause her to question the only faith she has ever known? What specific questions are posed in her at times? Do you think this is why she leaves the village? Be sure to write in detail.

Essay Topic 2

Think about all the tragic events Anna witnesses during the plague. Which of these, in your opinion, influenced her the most in forging her own life far away from the village and all the people she knows? Why? Explain in detail.

Essay Topic 3

Consider Anys Gowdie as a character. What role does she fulfill in the novel? How is she different from the rest of the characters in the book? From the time she was a child, how has she fought the villagers on their ostracism and humiliation of her? How does her status as a "fighter" set her apart from the other villagers? Who takes up her example? Be sure to use detail.

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