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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was in the pot the Mowbrays were boiling?
(a) Blood.
(b) Their baby.
(c) A dog.
(d) Baby urine.

4. What one topic do the rector and Elinor have a difference about?
(a) Whether it is safe to flee the village.
(b) What to do with Anna now that the plague is over.
(c) Whether the plague has ended or not.
(d) Whether to have children or not.

5. What does Anna notice about the will that the rector drew up for Jakob Merrill?
(a) He has actually left the house to his neighbor.
(b) The rector cannot write properlyf
(c) The will is in Latin.
(d) He has forgotten the date and also wrote in the wrong name once.

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

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

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

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

10. Why will Anna not testify for her father in court?
(a) She knows nothing of the situation.
(b) She is afraid she will cause her father harm.
(c) She does not want to speak on her father's behalf.
(d) She is in love with Christopher Unwin.

11. Who comes running toward the group in the middle of the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Mem.
(b) Anna.
(c) Anys.
(d) Aphra.

12. What happened to Kate Talbot's husband?
(a) He died in a mining accident.
(b) He burned his plague sore with a hot iron.
(c) Kate burned him when they got into an argument.
(d) He abandoned his family, afraid of the plague.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose illegitimate baby does Anna deliver?

2. What does Anna try to do for the rector but is unable?

3. What does Aphra make for Josiah that Anna questions?

4. Who does the rector convince Jakob Merill to leave his house to?

5. Where do they finally find John Gordon?

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