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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Elinor at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) She has a stroke.
(b) She is stabbed multiple times.
(c) Her throat is slit.
(d) She faints.

2. Who is dragged to the meeting at the Delf dressed in black?
(a) Elinor.
(b) Anys.
(c) Aphra.
(d) Anna.

3. What color are Elinor and the rector wearing at the service?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

4. What does Anna see when she wakes up and goes outside after her substance-induced sleep?
(a) Sally Maston standing in the doorway, her parents dying from the plague.
(b) A large snowfall preventing her from going to the rectory.
(c) Elinor standing outside her door.
(d) Anys Gowdie standing in her garden.

5. Who is the armed woman screaming at when she comes to the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Anna.
(b) John Gordon.
(c) The rector.
(d) Elinor.

6. What was in the pot the Mowbrays were boiling?
(a) Blood.
(b) A dog.
(c) Baby urine.
(d) Their baby.

7. Where does Anna end up at the end of the novel?
(a) India.
(b) Oran.
(c) Spain.
(d) France.

8. What do Anna and the rector do that Anna is ashamed of?
(a) Have sex.
(b) Dismiss the stable boy.
(c) Dance together.
(d) Run away together.

9. What new plan does the rector want the townspeople to undertake?
(a) Burn all their possessions that may carry the plague.
(b) Burn down all their houses and start again.
(c) Cut all their hair and burn it.
(d) Commit mass suicide.

10. How old is Aphra's child, Faith?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) Three.

11. Who finishes the sermon for the rector?
(a) Elinor.
(b) Mr. Stanley.
(c) Anna.
(d) Anna's father.

12. What does Elinor say when she is delirious?
(a) "Michael, my love, I'm pregnant."
(b) "Michael, go on without me."
(c) "Michael, how much longer, my love?"
(d) "Michael, save me."

13. What did the Mowbrays do to their infant to protect it from the plague?
(a) Performed a hex on the baby.
(b) Passed it through a bramble hedge.
(c) Left him out in the cold overnight.
(d) Hung the infant from the ceiling.

14. Who comes running toward the group in the middle of the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Mem.
(b) Aphra.
(c) Anna.
(d) Anys.

15. What does Anna do that snaps the rector out of his daze?
(a) Slaps him across the face.
(b) Throws his food dish at the wall.
(c) Cuts his cheek with a razor.
(d) Takes Anteros for a ride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anna's father sentenced to?

2. Where does Aphra spend the night after she is accused?

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

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

5. What do Anna and the rector give Urith Gordon?

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