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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Great Burning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has the rector lived in the village?
(a) Two years.
(b) Five years.
(c) His whole life.
(d) Three years.

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

3. What punishment does Anna compare the plague to?
(a) Starvation.
(b) Drawing and quartering.
(c) Time out.
(d) Lashing and pickling.

4. Who comes to Anna's cottage looking for Anna's father?
(a) His son.
(b) Aphra.
(c) Sam.
(d) The rector.

5. Why does the carter say the narrator is lucky to get the apples that they did?
(a) Because there were so few people to do the picking.
(b) Because apples don't grow near there.
(c) Because they were not in season.
(d) Because no one will deliver apples to the rectory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the condition of the Gordon cottage?

2. What happened to Kate Talbot's husband?

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

4. Whom does Anna want to see before they die from the plague?

5. Who is Sam?

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