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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Maggie's condition when she returns to the village after leaving the Bradfords?
(a) She is healthy, but no one will take her in.
(b) It appears she had a stroke; she is unable to control one side of her body.
(c) She is stricken with the plague.
(d) She is happy; she has found a cure for the plague.

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

3. Why is Anna embarrassed to see the rector when she is in the meadow with her children?
(a) She is breastfeeding.
(b) The rector is singing.
(c) The rector should be in church.
(d) Anna is naked.

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

5. Who comes to rescue the first accused witch?
(a) Elinor Mompellion.
(b) Michael Mompellion.
(c) Anys Gowdie.
(d) Anna Frith.

6. What does the crowd do to Anys?
(a) They hang her.
(b) They drown her.
(c) They let her go.
(d) They take her to trial.

7. What ultimately happens to Maggie Cantwell?
(a) She moves around the village, offering medicine and curing the plague.
(b) She dies from her injuries and from the stroke.
(c) She dies from the plague and is buried.
(d) She ends up living in the orchard alone.

8. What is George Viccars' trade?
(a) A priest.
(b) A journeyman tailor.
(c) A miner.
(d) A blacksmith.

9. Why does Anys come to Anna's house?
(a) To pick up a dress George made for her.
(b) To visit Anna.
(c) To give Anna some herbs.
(d) To buy some milk.

10. Who is Maggie Cantwell?
(a) A witch.
(b) A cook for the Bradford family.
(c) George Viccars' wife.
(d) Anna's sister.

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

12. What happens to Mem Gowdie after the encounter at the old mine?
(a) She is killed because she is thought to be a witch.
(b) She is severely sick from her near-drowning and dies.
(c) She leaves the village and survives.
(d) She gets the plague and dies.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Londoner tell the other diners during the Bradfords' dinner party?

2. Why doesn't any of the murderous mob get prosecuted for their actions?

3. How does Jamie help Anna in the field?

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

5. How does Mr. Viccars die?

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