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

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

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

5. After Elinor tells Anna her secret, what do they spend the day doing?
(a) Taking poppy to forget their worries.
(b) Packing so that they may flee soon.
(c) Winterizing the Gowdie garden.
(d) Researching herbs that will help them fight the plague.

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

7. What makes Anna suspect that Elinor is sick?
(a) She hears her cough.
(b) Elinor throws up.
(c) Elinor faints.
(d) There is a plague sore on Elinor.

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

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

10. What secret does Elinor reveal about herself to Anna?
(a) That she is getting ready to flee.
(b) That the rector is sick.
(c) That she takes poppy every night so that she may sleep.
(d) That she had been with child once.

11. What happens to Elinor at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) She faints.
(b) Her throat is slit.
(c) She is stabbed multiple times.
(d) She has a stroke.

12. 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) Anna's father is digging a grave for the rector.
(c) The rector insults Anna's father without cause.
(d) The rector says her father's work is unsatisfactory.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reaction of the other miners when Elinor and Anna go to the miner's tavern?

2. What is the condition of the Gordon cottage?

3. Whose cockerel does Anna see in her yard one morning?

4. Who is dragged to the meeting at the Delf dressed in black?

5. What does Anna's father do to Christopher Unwin during the night?

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