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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was the name of the boy who abandoned Elinor after convincing her to run away from home?
(a) Henry.
(b) Charles.
(c) Michael.
(d) Sam.

8. What predicament was Elinor in after her lover abandoned her?
(a) She was addicted to poppy.
(b) She was pregnant.
(c) She was in another country where she didn't speak the language.
(d) She was penniless.

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

10. What did the Mowbrays do to their infant to protect it from the plague?
(a) Passed it through a bramble hedge.
(b) Left him out in the cold overnight.
(c) Performed a hex on the baby.
(d) Hung the infant from the ceiling.

11. Where do they finally find John Gordon?
(a) In a tree.
(b) At the cemetery.
(c) In the stocks.
(d) Dead; fallen off the Edge.

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

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

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

15. What deal does Anna make with her father in return for his service digging graves?
(a) Her medicinal herbs.
(b) Some of her lambs.
(c) Poppy.
(d) Ale.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Anna and the rector give Urith Gordon?

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

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

5. What is the name of Anna and Mompellion's child?

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