View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anna do that snaps the rector out of his daze?
(a) Cuts his cheek with a razor.
(b) Takes Anteros for a ride.
(c) Throws his food dish at the wall.
(d) Slaps him across the face.

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

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

4. 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 was sent to weed out the weak.
(c) The plague is not the Devil or nature, but God.
(d) The plague is neither God nor Devil, but nature.

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

6. Why is Anna disgusted with the rector?
(a) For his treatment of Anteros.
(b) For his treatment of Elinor.
(c) Because he won't keep his hands off her.
(d) For the way he handled the plague.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Where does the rector hold his services now that the church is closed?
(a) The Delf.
(b) Anna's house.
(c) The Field.
(d) The rectory.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What new plan does the rector want the townspeople to undertake?

2. What service does Anna's father start up?

3. What does the presence of the cockerel mean to Anna?

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

5. What one topic do the rector and Elinor have a difference about?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 644 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample