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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aphra doing when Anna comes to check on her?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Dancing before the fire.
(c) Setting her house on fire.
(d) Burying Faith.

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

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

4. Where does Aphra spend the night after she is accused?
(a) In the stocks.
(b) In the churchyard, chained to a cross.
(c) In a fertilizer pool.
(d) At the rectory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Faith when Anna comes to visit Aphra?

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

3. What was Anna happy about when she went to sleep after going into the mine?

4. After Elinor tells Anna her secret, what do they spend the day doing?

5. Whose illegitimate baby does Anna deliver?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is dragged to the bonfire accused of being the "ghost" of Anys Gowdie and selling the villagers spells and advice? What do they want done to her for this deception?

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

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

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

6. What do Anna and Elinor do at the Gowdie cottage?

7. What color do the rector and Elinor wear to the Thanksgiving ceremony? What might this symbolize?

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

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

10. Where is Aphra kept overnight? What effect does this have on her? On the villagers?

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