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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 was strange about the autumn?
(a) The trees did not shed their leaves.
(b) It was very sunny.
(c) It was cold.
(d) It was unusually cloudy and dark.

2. How does Jamie help Anna in the field?
(a) He watches his baby brother.
(b) He doesn't help her.
(c) He reaches inside and helps the ewe give birth.
(d) He counts the lambs for Anna.

3. What does Anna try to give Maggie to make her feel better when Maggie comes back?
(a) Money for the medicine.
(b) Advice for her problems.
(c) A place to stay.
(d) Mutton broth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sam do when he found out how Anna's father had treated her as a child?

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

3. What does John Gordon begin to do to try to ward off the plague?

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

5. What is Maggie's condition when she returns to the village after leaving the Bradfords?

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