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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elinor do when Anna agrees to go along with the rector's plan?
(a) She frowns.
(b) She strikes Anna.
(c) She gives Anna a hug.
(d) She begins to laugh at Anna.

2. Why is Mem on her way to the Hadfields when Anna goes to see her?
(a) She is going to help butcher a hog.
(b) She is delivering bread.
(c) She is going for a visit.
(d) She is delivering a draught to Edward, who has a fever.

3. What did Anna and her friends call Anys when they were children?
(a) An idiot.
(b) Cow and grass-eater.
(c) A witch.
(d) A horse.

4. What condition is Maggie in when Anna leaves the tavern and sees her?
(a) She is in despair; no one will let her stay with them.
(b) She is even better; her medicine has cured a child.
(c) She has worsened; the plague has ravaged her body.
(d) She has worsened, and appears to have had another stroke.

5. Why does Anna run home after the dinner party at the Bradfords?
(a) To get there before the young Martin girl left.
(b) To check something on the stove.
(c) To tell her husband the news.
(d) To check on her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Tom soon after news of Edward?

2. How does Mr. Viccars die?

3. What does Anna say they should not give Mary during her labor?

4. Who is Jamie?

5. Who is Sam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the children find in the woodpile? How is this dangerous?

2. Why does Anna go to Mary's house? How does Mary and Anna's job differ from that of Alexander's?

3. Who tries to help Anna as she takes care of Jamie? What does each of these acts show?

4. What happened in Blackwell? What is Maggie Cantwell's condition?

5. What do the Bradfords do after the sermon in the Chapter, "Venom in the Blood"? How is this related to class?

6. What is revealed about Anna's relationship with her father? How does Sam figure into this?

7. What is Anna ashamed of in her relationship with Anys? How has this changed?

8. Why is Anna surprised when the rector comes upon her in the field? How does the rector react to this?

9. Why does Anna go to the tavern? Is she able to get what she needs?

10. What is the rector's religious explanation for the plague?

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