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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Elinor do when Anna agrees to go along with the rector's plan?
(a) She frowns.
(b) She strikes Anna.
(c) She begins to laugh at Anna.
(d) She gives Anna a hug.

3. Who is Thomas Stanley?
(a) The justice of the peace.
(b) The former parson of the village parish.
(c) A miner.
(d) A well respected doctor.

4. What does Anna discover about the baby still inside Mary Daniel?
(a) The baby is deformed.
(b) The baby is backwards.
(c) There is no baby.
(d) The baby is dead.

5. What did Anna and her friends call Anys when they were children?
(a) Cow and grass-eater.
(b) An idiot.
(c) A horse.
(d) A witch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the crowd told to do after they realize what they've done?

2. What new plan does the rector want the townspeople to undertake?

3. What does the rector refer to the plague as?

4. Who leaves the church unnoticed after the rector unveils his plan?

5. What does the narrator do with the apples?

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