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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the rector during the mass where he is visibly tired?
(a) He coughs up blood.
(b) He gets into a fistfight with Anna's father.
(c) He has a heart attack and dies.
(d) He faints.

2. Who does the rector convince Jakob Merill to leave his house to?
(a) Brand Rigney.
(b) Elinor Mompellion.
(c) Anna.
(d) Anna's father.

3. What do Anna and the rector do that Anna is ashamed of?
(a) Dance together.
(b) Run away together.
(c) Dismiss the stable boy.
(d) Have sex.

4. What conclusion does Anna come to about the plague after leaving the Mowbrays?
(a) The plague is not nature or God, but the Devil.
(b) The plague is not the Devil or nature, but God.
(c) The plague was sent to weed out the weak.
(d) The plague is neither God nor Devil, but nature.

5. What does Aphra make for Josiah that Anna questions?
(a) A figure of sticks, not Christian.
(b) A ring of roses.
(c) A crown of thorns.
(d) A sack of poisonous herbs.

6. Who comes running toward the group in the middle of the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Anna.
(b) Anys.
(c) Mem.
(d) Aphra.

7. Who finishes the sermon for the rector?
(a) Mr. Stanley.
(b) Elinor.
(c) Anna.
(d) Anna's father.

8. What one topic do the rector and Elinor have a difference about?
(a) Whether it is safe to flee the village.
(b) Whether the plague has ended or not.
(c) Whether to have children or not.
(d) What to do with Anna now that the plague is over.

9. What is strange about the rector's reaction when he sees Elinor and Anna at the tavern?
(a) He opens his arms out as if to hug, then claps his hand together.
(b) He leans forward as if to kiss, then draws back.
(c) He begins to cry.
(d) He starts yelling at them for being stupid.

10. Whom does Anna want to see before they die from the plague?
(a) Elinor Mompellion, her mentor.
(b) Anys Gowdie, her friend.
(c) Sam Frith, her husband.
(d) Lib Hancock, her oldest friend.

11. Why is the rector constantly tired?
(a) Because he has been fighting with Anna's father.
(b) Because he has been digging graves and visiting the sick nonstop.
(c) Because he has been preaching a boosting morale nonstop.
(d) Because he is indeed sick with the plague.

12. What is the condition of Anna's father when they find him?
(a) Dead from self-inflicted wounds.
(b) Alive, but with hypothermia.
(c) Dead, eaten by animals.
(d) Alive, but deranged.

13. What is Anna's father sentenced to?
(a) Burning at the stake.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Firing squad.
(d) A dagger through the hands.

14. Where does the rector hold his services now that the church is closed?
(a) The Field.
(b) The Delf.
(c) The rectory.
(d) Anna's house.

15. What do the rector and Anna see as they ride to the Gordon cottage?
(a) Jane Martin and Albion Samweys copulating.
(b) Jane Martin whipping John Gordon.
(c) John Gordon whipping himself.
(d) Jane Martin and John Gordon praying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Aphra spend the night after she is accused?

2. What does Aphra run at Anna with when Anna bursts in the door?

3. Why are the simplest tasks hard for Anna in the days after going into the mine?

4. What does Anna take from the Hadfields to help her sleep?

5. What makes Anna suspect that Elinor is sick?

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