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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did George tell Anna to do with his possessions?
(a) Sell them.
(b) Bury them with him.
(c) Burn them all.
(d) Throw them away.

3. Who is screaming when Anna wakes up after falling asleep with Tom?
(a) Aphra.
(b) Mem.
(c) Anys.
(d) Anna.

4. Who does Colonel Bradford insult during this interaction with the rector?
(a) Maggie Cantwell.
(b) Rector Mompellion and his wife.
(c) Anna and her sons.
(d) Anys and Mem Gowdie.

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

6. Who leaves the church unnoticed after the rector unveils his plan?
(a) Mem Gowdie.
(b) Anna.
(c) Anna's father and stepmother.
(d) The Bradfords.

7. 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 there were so few people to do the picking.
(c) Because they were not in season.
(d) Because apples don't grow near there.

8. How does Mr. Viccars die?
(a) A riding accident.
(b) Mr. Viccars doesn't die.
(c) He gets terribly ill.
(d) A mining accident.

9. What altercation does Anna get into with her father at the tavern?
(a) Anna's father denounces her.
(b) Her father insults the rector's plan; Anna retorts.
(c) Anna calls her father a drunken idiot.
(d) Anna accuses her father of murdering her mother.

10. Why is Anna afraid of helping deliver Mary Daniel's baby?
(a) Because she has never assisted in a birth before.
(b) Because the baby is in breach position.
(c) Because she is afraid of blood.
(d) Because she watched her mother die in childbirth.

11. What does Mr. Mompellion say the villages with the plague should do?
(a) Flee to cleaner air.
(b) Warn neighboring villages.
(c) Pray for forgiveness.
(d) Stay and fight the disease.

12. What condition is Maggie in when Anna leaves the tavern and sees her?
(a) She is even better; her medicine has cured a child.
(b) She has worsened; the plague has ravaged her body.
(c) She is in despair; no one will let her stay with them.
(d) She has worsened, and appears to have had another stroke.

13. What does the narrator do with the apples?
(a) Bites into one.
(b) Tramples them for cider.
(c) Makes a pie with them.
(d) Slices one very thin and takes it to the rector.

14. What does Anna feed the horse?
(a) Hay.
(b) Straw.
(c) Carrots.
(d) Apples.

15. What is the main argument of the rector's sermon after the scene at the old mine?
(a) That God is punishing them for their sins.
(b) That there is no hope; they will all die together in the village.
(c) That the village should stay and contain the plague.
(d) That those who are well should flee to a healthy village.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the rector walking with in the orchard?

2. Why does Anna run home after the dinner party at the Bradfords?

3. How did Sam die?

4. Who is very vocal about their doubts as to the rector's plan?

5. Who is the mob beating near the old mine?

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