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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 does Mompellion do after Elinor's death that is unusual?

2. What punishment does Aphra receive from the villagers?

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

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

5. What does Anna do that snaps the rector out of his daze?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is the rector exhausted during the chapter "Among Those that Go Down to the Pit"? What happens during his sermon?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about Anna's father, Josiah. What events in his life have taught him to be a cold, callous character? How does his treatment of Anna estrange him from her? Do you think he deserves mercy for his actions? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Think about the difference between the Gowdie garden and Elinor's garden. Are Mem's and Anys's fates much different from Elinor's? How might these gardens affect their deaths? Think specifically about the reasons for these characters' deaths and each garden's instrumentality in the survival of the village.

Essay Topic 3

Think about the first time Anna is asked to assist in delivering a child. Why is she so apprehensive about it? What, besides her lack of expertise, makes her lack confidence? How does she regain confidence? How is this significant?

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