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

2. What does Anna's father do to Christopher Unwin during the night?
(a) Accuses Christopher of starting the plague.
(b) Tries to bury him.
(c) Tries to infect him with the plague.
(d) Challenges him to a duel.

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

4. What is the condition of Anna's father when they find him?
(a) Alive, but with hypothermia.
(b) Dead from self-inflicted wounds.
(c) Alive, but deranged.
(d) Dead, eaten by animals.

5. Who is able to subdue the angry woman at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) The rector.
(b) John Gordon.
(c) Anna.
(d) Elinor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the rector and Anna see as they ride to the Gordon cottage?

2. What does John Gordon begin to do to try to ward off the plague?

3. What does Anna do that snaps the rector out of his daze?

4. What is the condition of the Gordon cottage?

5. What do Anna and the rector do that Anna is ashamed of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Elinor say when she is delirious? What might this mean? Why does the rector excuse Anna so curtly?

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

4. What does Anna take to help her sleep? How does it work? How is it dangerous?

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

6. Why doesn't Anna use the letter of introduction the rector wrote for her? What danger lurks for her if she isn't careful?

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

8. Where is Aphra kept overnight? What effect does this have on her? On the villagers?

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

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

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