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

2. What is the condition of the Gordon cottage?
(a) It is abandoned.
(b) It is burning.
(c) It is bare.
(d) It is not there.

3. After Elinor tells Anna her secret, what do they spend the day doing?
(a) Winterizing the Gowdie garden.
(b) Packing so that they may flee soon.
(c) Taking poppy to forget their worries.
(d) Researching herbs that will help them fight the plague.

4. Why is Anna disgusted with the rector?
(a) For the way he handled the plague.
(b) Because he won't keep his hands off her.
(c) For his treatment of Elinor.
(d) For his treatment of Anteros.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aphra run at Anna with when Anna bursts in the door?

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

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

4. What does Anna see when she wakes up and goes outside after her substance-induced sleep?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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