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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Press of Their Ghosts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is screaming when Anna wakes up after falling asleep with Tom?
(a) Anys.
(b) Mem.
(c) Aphra.
(d) Anna.

2. What conclusion does Anna come to about the plague after leaving the Mowbrays?
(a) The plague is neither God nor Devil, but nature.
(b) The plague is not the Devil or nature, but God.
(c) The plague is not nature or God, but the Devil.
(d) The plague was sent to weed out the weak.

3. What happens to Edward Cooper after he plays in the wood pile?
(a) He dies.
(b) He goes into a coma.
(c) He only has a fever, and follows the doctor's orders.
(d) Nothing.

4. What sad marker does the town come upon in June?
(a) Plague free for six months.
(b) None of the answers if correct.
(c) There are more people in the ground than above it.
(d) There are more people above ground than in it.

5. What does John Gordon begin to do to try to ward off the plague?
(a) He becomes a priest.
(b) He becomes a flagellant.
(c) He renounces all religion and becomes an atheist.
(d) He begins to pray at plague stricken bedsides.

Short Answer Questions

1. What altercation does Anna get into with her father at the tavern?

2. What was strange about the autumn?

3. What did Sam do when he found out how Anna's father had treated her as a child?

4. Why is Anna crying in the rectory kitchen?

5. What is Josiah doing when Anna gets to the tavern?

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