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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 is Maggie's condition when she returns to the village after leaving the Bradfords?
(a) She is stricken with the plague.
(b) She is happy; she has found a cure for the plague.
(c) She is healthy, but no one will take her in.
(d) It appears she had a stroke; she is unable to control one side of her body.

2. What rank is Henry Bradford?
(a) Sergeant.
(b) General.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Rector.

3. Who does Anna talk with on her way to the Bradfords?
(a) Michael Mompellion.
(b) Sam Frith.
(c) Lib Hancock.
(d) George Viccars.

4. Who is the rector walking with in the orchard?
(a) Elinor Mompellion.
(b) George Viccars.
(c) Thomas Stanley.
(d) Anna Frith.

5. Who says, "We all begin as naked children, playing in the mud"?
(a) The rector.
(b) George Viccars.
(c) Anna.
(d) Mrs. Mompellion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was strange about the autumn?

2. Where does Maggie Cantwell go after the Bradfords throw her out?

3. Why doesn't any of the murderous mob get prosecuted for their actions?

4. How does Anys help Jamie when he is sick?

5. What does Mr. Mompellion say the villages with the plague should do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What defense does Anys employ when being accused of witchcraft? Why do you think she does this?

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

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

4. What does Anna do to try to stop the crowd during the witch frenzy? Is this effective?

5. What confrontation ensues at the Bradford household after Mompellion's sermon? Is anything resolved?

6. What does Anna do at the Bradfords'? How does she unwittingly cause a stir?

7. Who comes and stops the crowd during the witch frenzy? How is he/she able to shame them into repentance?

8. What happens to Maggie Cantwell? What question arises in Anna as she thinks of Maggie and her father?

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

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

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