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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) Knitting.
(c) Dancing before the fire.
(d) Setting her house on fire.

2. Who is dragged to the meeting at the Delf dressed in black?
(a) Aphra.
(b) Anna.
(c) Anys.
(d) Elinor.

3. What does Elinor carry in her arms during the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Apples.
(b) Seeds.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Children.

4. Why is Elinor looking through the Gowdies' herbs?
(a) She is burning the herbs because they are witchcraft.
(b) To see if she can find things that will strengthen the healthy against the plague.
(c) She is looking for more poppy.
(d) She is actually looking for Anys's book of spells.

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

6. What is strange about Christopher Unwin's condition?
(a) He is immune to the plague.
(b) He is recovering from the plague.
(c) He has the power to cure people with the plague.
(d) He dies within minutes of getting the plague.

7. 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 begins to cry.
(c) He leans forward as if to kiss, then draws back.
(d) He starts yelling at them for being stupid.

8. What sets the angry woman off for the second time at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Someone shouts that she is a witch.
(b) Elinor says something in her ear.
(c) Faith's head pops off.
(d) The rector spits on her.

9. What service does Anna's father start up?
(a) Herb growing.
(b) Grave digging.
(c) Witchcraft.
(d) Tailoring.

10. What is the name of Anna and Mompellion's child?
(a) Elinor.
(b) Anys.
(c) Aisha.
(d) Aphra.

11. What does John Gordon begin to do to try to ward off the plague?
(a) He renounces all religion and becomes an atheist.
(b) He becomes a priest.
(c) He begins to pray at plague stricken bedsides.
(d) He becomes a flagellant.

12. What punishment does Aphra receive from the villagers?
(a) None; the rector says she had endured enough.
(b) She is sent to the stocks for a week.
(c) She is burned at the stake.
(d) She is sent to live in isolation and banned from the town.

13. Who is able to subdue the angry woman at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) John Gordon.
(b) Anna.
(c) Elinor.
(d) The rector.

14. What does Elinor say when she is delirious?
(a) "Michael, how much longer, my love?"
(b) "Michael, save me."
(c) "Michael, go on without me."
(d) "Michael, my love, I'm pregnant."

15. What does Aphra run at Anna with when Anna bursts in the door?
(a) A hot poker.
(b) A spider.
(c) A magic wand.
(d) A serpent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anna end up at the end of the novel?

2. What does Kate Talbot resort to in her desperation after seeing her husband's affliction?

3. Whose illegitimate baby does Anna deliver?

4. Who is the armed woman screaming at when she comes to the Thanksgiving service?

5. What sad marker does the town come upon in June?

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