2. Why do the rector and Josiah get into a fight outside Unwin's house?
(a) Anna's father is digging a grave while the patient is recovering.
(b) The rector says her father's work is unsatisfactory.
(c) Anna's father is digging a grave for the rector.
(d) The rector insults Anna's father without cause.

3. What business does the rector take care of before mourning Elinor's death?
(a) Opens up the road and writes the plague has passed.
(b) Cuts his hair and burns it.
(c) Goes to Elinor's father to tell the news.
(d) Carves a gravestone.

4. Where does Aphra spend the night after she is accused?
(a) In the stocks.
(b) In a fertilizer pool.
(c) At the rectory.
(d) In the churchyard, chained to a cross.

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

6. Why do Anna and Elinor go down into the Wickford mine?
(a) To show that women can to men's work.
(b) To find herbs that grow underground.
(c) To get lead for Merry.
(d) To save Merry Wickford, who is trapped there.

7. How does Jane Martin's behavior change from the beginning of the novel?
(a) She changes religion.
(b) She becomes extremely devout.
(c) She becomes promiscuous.
(d) She becomes a recluse.

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

9. What dangerous method does Anna use in the mine?
(a) Vibration.
(b) Fire.
(c) Dynamite.
(d) Smoke.

10. What does Anna's father do to Christopher Unwin during the night?
(a) Tries to infect him with the plague.
(b) Challenges him to a duel.
(c) Accuses Christopher of starting the plague.
(d) Tries to bury him.

11. Who is the armed woman screaming at when she comes to the Thanksgiving service?
(a) The rector.
(b) John Gordon.
(c) Elinor.
(d) Anna.

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

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

14. What is the reaction of the other miners when Elinor and Anna go to the miner's tavern?
(a) They are mean and vindictive.
(b) They turn them away.
(c) They are surprised and proud.
(d) They are scornful.

15. What new plan does the rector want the townspeople to undertake?
(a) Commit mass suicide.
(b) Burn down all their houses and start again.
(c) Burn all their possessions that may carry the plague.
(d) Cut all their hair and burn it.