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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the presence of the cockerel mean to Anna?
(a) The plague is getting stronger.
(b) The world is ending.
(c) The plague is gone.
(d) Bad news is coming.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Mompellion do after Elinor's death that is unusual?
(a) Takes Anteros for a ride and doesn't come back for days.
(b) Cuts his hair and burns it.
(c) Locks himself up in the rectory.
(d) Burns all of Elinor's possessions.

9. What do the townspeople accuse Aphra of doing?
(a) Performing hexes on the living.
(b) Digging graves before the victims are dead.
(c) Haunting the living with memories of their dead loved ones.
(d) Selling people spells while disguised as Anys.

10. What sad marker does the town come upon in June?
(a) None of the answers if correct.
(b) Plague free for six months.
(c) There are more people above ground than in it.
(d) There are more people in the ground than above it.

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

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

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

14. 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) The rector spits on her.
(d) Faith's head pops off.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was Anna happy about when she went to sleep after going into the mine?

4. Why do the rector and Josiah get into a fight outside Unwin's house?

5. What does Anna see when she wakes up and goes outside after her substance-induced sleep?

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