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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. How does Anna save the illegitimate baby's life?
(a) She gives the baby CPR.
(b) She asks for money to take it where no one will know about it.
(c) She fights a knife from Elizabeth Bradford's hands.
(d) She uncovers the baby, as they have tried to bury it alive.

2. Why is Anna crying in the rectory kitchen?
(a) Anna is crying for all the dead children.
(b) Anna is crying for her father.
(c) Anna is crying because she is in love with the rector.
(d) Anna is crying for Elinor's unborn child.

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

4. 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.

5. What does the armed woman have in her arms at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) A serpent.
(b) Hope.
(c) Faith.
(d) Spells.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is able to subdue the angry woman at the Thanksgiving service?

2. What does Elinor carry in her arms during the Thanksgiving service?

3. Why are the simplest tasks hard for Anna in the days after going into the mine?

4. Why won't Aphra let Anna keep Faith until she recovers?

5. What business does the rector take care of before mourning Elinor's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan does the rector come up with to save the village? What is the reason for this action?

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

3. What is Anys carrying when she runs at the rector with the knife? How does this spur her to murder Elinor?

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

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

6. Where does Anna end up at the end of the novel? What does she choose as her life's work?

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

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

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

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

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