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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 did the Mowbrays do to their infant to protect it from the plague?
(a) Performed a hex on the baby.
(b) Left him out in the cold overnight.
(c) Hung the infant from the ceiling.
(d) Passed it through a bramble hedge.

2. What do Anna and her children find in the field?
(a) A newborn lamb.
(b) A ewe in labor.
(c) A dead ewe.
(d) A dead lamb.

3. What sad marker does the town come upon in June?
(a) Plague free for six months.
(b) None of the answers if correct.
(c) There are more people above ground than in it.
(d) There are more people in the ground than above it.

4. What happens to Tom soon after news of Edward?
(a) He grows big and strong.
(b) He dies.
(c) He catches a fever, but lives.
(d) He becomes deaf.

5. What altercation does Anna get into with her father at the tavern?
(a) Her father insults the rector's plan; Anna retorts.
(b) Anna accuses her father of murdering her mother.
(c) Anna's father denounces her.
(d) Anna calls her father a drunken idiot.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What conclusion does Anna come to about the plague after leaving the Mowbrays?

3. What was in the pot the Mowbrays were boiling?

4. Why does Anna throw Elinor and Michael's plates against the wall?

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

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