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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. Under what charge is Anna's father brought to trial?

2. Who finishes the sermon for the rector?

3. What punishment does Aphra receive from the villagers?

4. What is the condition of Anna's father when they find him?

5. What color are Elinor and the rector wearing at the service?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 so angry with the Mowbrays? Who has influenced them to do these actions?

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

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

6. What do the rector and Elinor have their only disagreement over? How is Elinor's reaction significant?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about Anna's questioning of her faith throughout the novel. What events cause her to question the only faith she has ever known? What specific questions are posed in her at times? Do you think this is why she leaves the village? Be sure to write in detail.

Essay Topic 2

Think about Anna's adoration of her children. What does Aphra tell her about this? How are the tables turned later on in the book? Is Aphra's heart truly hardened, as Anna says? Be sure to use examples.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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