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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 do Anna and the rector give Urith Gordon?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) A horse.
(d) Clothes.

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

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

4. What are Mary and Anna doing at the Hadfield residence in the chapter 'Rat-Fall'?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Butchering a hog.
(c) Washing clothes.
(d) Chopping wood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "We all begin as naked children, playing in the mud"?

2. Why is Mem on her way to the Hadfields when Anna goes to see her?

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

4. Where do they finally find John Gordon?

5. What were Edward and Jamie playing with in the wood pile?

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