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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 is the condition of the Gordon cottage?
(a) It is bare.
(b) It is not there.
(c) It is burning.
(d) It is abandoned.

2. Who is Sam?
(a) Anna's son.
(b) Anna's husband.
(c) Anna's brother.
(d) Anna's Uncle.

3. Why are the simplest tasks hard for Anna in the days after going into the mine?
(a) Because she has the plague.
(b) Because her father beat her.
(c) Because she is sore and bruised from her work in the mine.
(d) Because the cold freezes her limbs.

4. Why does Anna happen to be in the field where the crowd gathers?
(a) The rector wants to meet her there.
(b) She goes there to think about Sam.
(c) She is tending to her sheep.
(d) She hears there is a witch in the village and runs to meet them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jane Martin's behavior change from the beginning of the novel?

2. What does Anna notice about the will that the rector drew up for Jakob Merrill?

3. Who does the rector convince Jakob Merill to leave his house to?

4. What do the townspeople accuse Aphra of doing?

5. What is different about the young Martin girl?

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