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

2. What business does the rector take care of before mourning Elinor's death?
(a) Cuts his hair and burns it.
(b) Opens up the road and writes the plague has passed.
(c) Goes to Elinor's father to tell the news.
(d) Carves a gravestone.

3. What sets the angry woman off for the second time at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Elinor says something in her ear.
(b) Someone shouts that she is a witch.
(c) Faith's head pops off.
(d) The rector spits on her.

4. Where does Anna find Elizabeth Bradford?
(a) At her house.
(b) At Anna's cottage.
(c) In the church.
(d) In the graveyard.

5. Who is dragged to the meeting at the Delf dressed in black?
(a) Aphra.
(b) Elinor.
(c) Anna.
(d) Anys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mompellion do after Elinor's death that is unusual?

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

3. What punishment does Aphra receive from the villagers?

4. How old is Aphra's child, Faith?

5. Where do they finally find John Gordon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Whom does Anna ask for help with digging the graves? Why won't he help?

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

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

9. Why is Anna so angry with the Mowbrays? Who has influenced them to do these actions?

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

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