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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. Who finishes the sermon for the rector?

2. How does Jane Martin's behavior change from the beginning of the novel?

3. What service does Anna's father start up?

4. Why is the rector constantly tired?

5. What happens to Elinor at the Thanksgiving service?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. Why is the rector summoned to Christopher Unwin's house? Why does Anna see Christopher again later, bloody and naked?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the roles that Anna and Elinor fill for the rector. Then consider these two characters and their similarities and differences. How is Anna's role with the rector different from Elinor's? Does Anna betray Elinor after Elinor is dead? Why? Why does Anna decide to forge her own path instead of going to Elinor's father's house for safety?

Essay Topic 2

Think about the argument to stay or leave the village when the plague strikes. In the scene in Colonel Bradford's house, where the Londoner and rector debate methods of dealing with the plague, who seems to be more passionate about his position? Does this passion help when the time comes to use it? Who do you agree with? Why?

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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