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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. How old is Aphra's child, Faith?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Eight.

2. What does Anna notice about the will that the rector drew up for Jakob Merrill?
(a) He has actually left the house to his neighbor.
(b) The will is in Latin.
(c) The rector cannot write properlyf
(d) He has forgotten the date and also wrote in the wrong name once.

3. What do Anna and the rector give Urith Gordon?
(a) Food.
(b) A horse.
(c) Money.
(d) Clothes.

4. Whom does Anna want to see before they die from the plague?
(a) Anys Gowdie, her friend.
(b) Lib Hancock, her oldest friend.
(c) Sam Frith, her husband.
(d) Elinor Mompellion, her mentor.

5. What do the rector and Anna see as they ride to the Gordon cottage?
(a) Jane Martin and Albion Samweys copulating.
(b) John Gordon whipping himself.
(c) Jane Martin and John Gordon praying.
(d) Jane Martin whipping John Gordon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Elinor buried?

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

4. What did the Mowbrays do to their infant to protect it from the plague?

5. Whom does Anna think she sees when she tries to light a fire in the cottage?

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

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

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

5. What is revealed about Elinor's past? What is Anna's reaction?

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

7. 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?

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

9. What plan does the rector come up with to save the village? What is the reason for this action?

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

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