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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 is Anna's father sentenced to?
(a) Burning at the stake.
(b) Firing squad.
(c) Hanging.
(d) A dagger through the hands.

2. Why do Anna and Elinor go down into the Wickford mine?
(a) To save Merry Wickford, who is trapped there.
(b) To show that women can to men's work.
(c) To get lead for Merry.
(d) To find herbs that grow underground.

3. What do the townspeople accuse Aphra of doing?
(a) Performing hexes on the living.
(b) Digging graves before the victims are dead.
(c) Selling people spells while disguised as Anys.
(d) Haunting the living with memories of their dead loved ones.

4. What service does Anna's father start up?
(a) Witchcraft.
(b) Herb growing.
(c) Tailoring.
(d) Grave digging.

5. Why do the rector and Josiah get into a fight outside Unwin's house?
(a) Anna's father is digging a grave while the patient is recovering.
(b) Anna's father is digging a grave for the rector.
(c) The rector insults Anna's father without cause.
(d) The rector says her father's work is unsatisfactory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reaction of the other miners when Elinor and Anna go to the miner's tavern?

2. What is Aphra doing when Anna comes to check on her?

3. After Elinor tells Anna her secret, what do they spend the day doing?

4. Where does Aphra spend the night after she is accused?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the rector react to Elinor and Anna's actions? What is odd about his reaction when he first sees them?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why is Anna crying in the kitchen? How is it therapeutic for her to tell Elinor her feeling about her father?

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

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

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