View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under what charge is Anna's father brought to trial?
(a) Embezzlement.
(b) Theft.
(c) Attempted Murder.
(d) Murder.

2. 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) Elinor says something in her ear.
(d) The rector spits on her.

3. Where does Anna end up at the end of the novel?
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) Oran.
(d) India.

4. Why is Elinor looking through the Gowdies' herbs?
(a) She is looking for more poppy.
(b) To see if she can find things that will strengthen the healthy against the plague.
(c) She is burning the herbs because they are witchcraft.
(d) She is actually looking for Anys's book of spells.

5. What is strange about Christopher Unwin's condition?
(a) He dies within minutes of getting the plague.
(b) He is immune to the plague.
(c) He is recovering from the plague.
(d) He has the power to cure people with the plague.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What makes Anna suspect that Elinor is sick?

4. Why is Anna disgusted with the rector?

5. After Elinor tells Anna her secret, what do they spend the day doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is revealed about Elinor's past? What is Anna's reaction?

2. Why is Anna so angry with the Mowbrays? Who has influenced them to do these actions?

3. Why is the rector summoned to Christopher Unwin's house? Why does Anna see Christopher again later, bloody and naked?

4. What color do the rector and Elinor wear to the Thanksgiving ceremony? What might this symbolize?

5. Why do the rector and Anna visit her father? Does anything come from this visit? Explain.

6. Whom does Anna ask for help with digging the graves? Why won't he help?

7. Who does Anna see as she is trying to get water from her well? What new endeavor has he begun?

8. Where does Anna hope she will find relief? How does her knowledge of herbs comfort her?

9. Why is the rector exhausted during the chapter "Among Those that Go Down to the Pit"? What happens during his sermon?

10. Who is dragged to the bonfire accused of being the "ghost" of Anys Gowdie and selling the villagers spells and advice? What do they want done to her for this deception?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 847 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample