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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aphra doing when Anna comes to check on her?
(a) Burying Faith.
(b) Setting her house on fire.
(c) Knitting.
(d) Dancing before the fire.

2. What was Anna happy about when she went to sleep after going into the mine?
(a) That it was warming up outside.
(b) That the rector wasn't angry with her.
(c) That she had poppy to ease her pain.
(d) That she had done something that came out right.

3. What does Kate Talbot resort to in her desperation after seeing her husband's affliction?
(a) She runs after her husband, who abandoned her.
(b) She tries to induce labor.
(c) She tries to put her husband out of his misery.
(d) She tries to do a spell, hoping it will cure her husband.

4. How old is Aphra's child, Faith?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

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

6. Whose illegitimate baby does Anna deliver?
(a) Mrs. Bradford's.
(b) Margaret Livesedge's.
(c) Aphra's.
(d) Elizabeth Bradford's.

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

8. What does the armed woman have in her arms at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) A serpent.
(b) Faith.
(c) Hope.
(d) Spells.

9. Where does Anna find Elizabeth Bradford?
(a) In the church.
(b) At Anna's cottage.
(c) In the graveyard.
(d) At her house.

10. What did the Mowbrays do to their infant to protect it from the plague?
(a) Performed a hex on the baby.
(b) Passed it through a bramble hedge.
(c) Hung the infant from the ceiling.
(d) Left him out in the cold overnight.

11. Whom does Anna think she sees when she tries to light a fire in the cottage?
(a) Anys Gowdie.
(b) Lib Hancock.
(c) Sam Frith.
(d) Mem Gowdie.

12. Why won't Aphra let Anna keep Faith until she recovers?
(a) She is afraid Anna will badmouth her to her child.
(b) She is afraid Anna will kill Faith in revenge.
(c) She is afraid Anna has the plague and will give it to Faith.
(d) She is afraid Faith has the plague.

13. Whose cockerel does Anna see in her yard one morning?
(a) Elinor's.
(b) The rector's.
(c) Aphra's.
(d) Andrew Merrick's.

14. Why is Anna disgusted with the rector?
(a) Because he won't keep his hands off her.
(b) For his treatment of Anteros.
(c) For his treatment of Elinor.
(d) For the way he handled the plague.

15. What predicament was Elinor in after her lover abandoned her?
(a) She was penniless.
(b) She was pregnant.
(c) She was addicted to poppy.
(d) She was in another country where she didn't speak the language.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to Anna's cottage looking for Anna's father?

2. How does Anna save the illegitimate baby's life?

3. What one topic do the rector and Elinor have a difference about?

4. After Elinor tells Anna her secret, what do they spend the day doing?

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

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