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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) Hung the infant from the ceiling.
(b) Performed a hex on the baby.
(c) Left him out in the cold overnight.
(d) Passed it through a bramble hedge.

2. Why is the rector constantly tired?
(a) Because he is indeed sick with the plague.
(b) Because he has been preaching a boosting morale nonstop.
(c) Because he has been digging graves and visiting the sick nonstop.
(d) Because he has been fighting with Anna's father.

3. What does Elinor carry in her arms during the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Seeds.
(c) Apples.
(d) Children.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Anna want to see before they die from the plague?

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

3. What does Anna try to do for the rector but is unable?

4. Who is the armed woman screaming at when she comes to the Thanksgiving service?

5. Who does the rector convince Jakob Merill to leave his house to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

7. What path has John Gordon taken? How does he meet his end?

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

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

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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