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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What predicament was Elinor in after her lover abandoned her?

4. What one topic do the rector and Elinor have a difference about?

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

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

3. Why does Aphra blame Anna for her husband's death? What does Anna notice about Aphra when they bury him?

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

5. Where does Anna hope she will find relief? How does her knowledge of herbs comfort her?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Jane Martin change throughout the course of the novel? What do you think spurs this change? Why? Be sure to use at least three examples of her change in behavior.

Essay Topic 2

Think about Elinor's past. Why do you think she tells Anna about this? What does the rector do to punish Elinor for these past transgressions? Does he regret it later? Why? How does Anna react to all of this?

Essay Topic 3

Think about the Bradford's cook, Maggie Cantwell. Why is she devastated when the Bradfords throw her out? Where does she have to go? Why will she not take Anna's offer? Does this affect what happens to her in the next town? Why? How does Maggie Cantwell die? What question does this pose in Anna?

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