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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What business does the rector take care of before mourning Elinor's death?
(a) Opens up the road and writes the plague has passed.
(b) Cuts his hair and burns it.
(c) Carves a gravestone.
(d) Goes to Elinor's father to tell the news.

2. What does Mompellion do after Elinor's death that is unusual?
(a) Cuts his hair and burns it.
(b) Locks himself up in the rectory.
(c) Takes Anteros for a ride and doesn't come back for days.
(d) Burns all of Elinor's possessions.

3. What happens to Aphra at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) She turns the knife on herself.
(b) The armed woman murders her.
(c) She runs into the woods.
(d) She cries and repents her devil worship.

4. What do the rector and Anna see as they ride to the Gordon cottage?
(a) John Gordon whipping himself.
(b) Jane Martin and John Gordon praying.
(c) Jane Martin and Albion Samweys copulating.
(d) Jane Martin whipping John Gordon.

5. What one topic do the rector and Elinor have a difference about?
(a) Whether to have children or not.
(b) What to do with Anna now that the plague is over.
(c) Whether the plague has ended or not.
(d) Whether it is safe to flee the village.

6. What sets the angry woman off for the second time at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Someone shouts that she is a witch.
(b) Elinor says something in her ear.
(c) The rector spits on her.
(d) Faith's head pops off.

7. Who does the rector convince Jakob Merill to leave his house to?
(a) Brand Rigney.
(b) Anna.
(c) Elinor Mompellion.
(d) Anna's father.

8. What predicament was Elinor in after her lover abandoned her?
(a) She was penniless.
(b) She was pregnant.
(c) She was in another country where she didn't speak the language.
(d) She was addicted to poppy.

9. What does Aphra run at Anna with when Anna bursts in the door?
(a) A serpent.
(b) A magic wand.
(c) A hot poker.
(d) A spider.

10. Whom does Anna want to see before they die from the plague?
(a) Elinor Mompellion, her mentor.
(b) Anys Gowdie, her friend.
(c) Sam Frith, her husband.
(d) Lib Hancock, her oldest friend.

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

12. Why is Elinor looking through the Gowdies' herbs?
(a) To see if she can find things that will strengthen the healthy against the plague.
(b) She is looking for more poppy.
(c) She is burning the herbs because they are witchcraft.
(d) She is actually looking for Anys's book of spells.

13. Where is Faith when Anna comes to visit Aphra?
(a) In the rafters.
(b) Dancing with her mother.
(c) Buried alive.
(d) Hanging on the wall, dead.

14. What does Kate Talbot resort to in her desperation after seeing her husband's affliction?
(a) She tries to do a spell, hoping it will cure her husband.
(b) She tries to induce labor.
(c) She runs after her husband, who abandoned her.
(d) She tries to put her husband out of his misery.

15. What service does Anna's father start up?
(a) Grave digging.
(b) Witchcraft.
(c) Tailoring.
(d) Herb growing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was in the pot the Mowbrays were boiling?

3. What does the presence of the cockerel mean to Anna?

4. What does Anna see when she wakes up and goes outside after her substance-induced sleep?

5. What new plan does the rector want the townspeople to undertake?

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