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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) Hung the infant from the ceiling.
(c) Passed it through a bramble hedge.
(d) Left him out in the cold overnight.

2. What is Josiah doing when Anna gets to the tavern?
(a) Singing.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Preaching.
(d) Crying.

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

4. Why is Mem on her way to the Hadfields when Anna goes to see her?
(a) She is going to help butcher a hog.
(b) She is going for a visit.
(c) She is delivering bread.
(d) She is delivering a draught to Edward, who has a fever.

5. Where do they finally find John Gordon?
(a) Dead; fallen off the Edge.
(b) In the stocks.
(c) At the cemetery.
(d) In a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Anna run home after the altercation with her father?

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

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

4. Why is Anna crying in the rectory kitchen?

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

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