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

2. Why do Anna and Elinor go down into the Wickford mine?
(a) To show that women can to men's work.
(b) To save Merry Wickford, who is trapped there.
(c) To find herbs that grow underground.
(d) To get lead for Merry.

3. What new plan does the rector want the townspeople to undertake?
(a) Burn all their possessions that may carry the plague.
(b) Cut all their hair and burn it.
(c) Commit mass suicide.
(d) Burn down all their houses and start again.

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

5. What is Anna's father sentenced to?
(a) A dagger through the hands.
(b) Burning at the stake.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Firing squad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What punishment does Aphra receive from the villagers?

2. What color are Elinor and the rector wearing at the service?

3. What sets the angry woman off for the second time at the Thanksgiving service?

4. What disappointing decision does the rector tell the church members during his sermon that he delivers while exhausted?

5. Who is dragged to the meeting at the Delf dressed in black?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the rector react to Elinor and Anna's actions? What is odd about his reaction when he first sees them?

2. What do the rector and Elinor have their only disagreement over? How is Elinor's reaction significant?

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

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

5. Why is Anna repulsed by the rector? How do you think this contributes to the choice of her final destination in the novel?

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

7. 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?

8. Why does Anna take Anteros for a ride? What do you think this symbolizes?

9. What do Anna and Elinor do at the Gowdie cottage?

10. Why is Anna crying in the kitchen? How is it therapeutic for her to tell Elinor her feeling about her father?

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