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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. Why are the simplest tasks hard for Anna in the days after going into the mine?
(a) Because she has the plague.
(b) Because she is sore and bruised from her work in the mine.
(c) Because the cold freezes her limbs.
(d) Because her father beat her.

2. What sad marker does the town come upon in June?
(a) There are more people in the ground than above it.
(b) Plague free for six months.
(c) None of the answers if correct.
(d) There are more people above ground than in it.

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

4. What color are Elinor and the rector wearing at the service?
(a) Brown.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Anna and Mompellion's child?

2. What secret does Elinor reveal about herself to Anna?

3. What was the name of the boy who abandoned Elinor after convincing her to run away from home?

4. Why do Anna and Elinor go down into the Wickford mine?

5. What punishment does Aphra receive from the villagers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. What child do Anna and Elinor help? What do they do to help this child?

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

9. What makes Anna even angrier as she leaves the Mowbrays'? What conclusion does she consider as a result of this?

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

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