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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 deal does Anna make with her father in return for his service digging graves?
(a) Her medicinal herbs.
(b) Some of her lambs.
(c) Poppy.
(d) Ale.

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

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

4. What is the reaction of the other miners when Elinor and Anna go to the miner's tavern?
(a) They are surprised and proud.
(b) They are scornful.
(c) They are mean and vindictive.
(d) They turn them away.

5. Whom does Anna think she sees when she tries to light a fire in the cottage?
(a) Anys Gowdie.
(b) Lib Hancock.
(c) Mem Gowdie.
(d) Sam Frith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Elinor buried?

2. Who does the rector convince Jakob Merill to leave his house to?

3. Who comes running toward the group in the middle of the Thanksgiving service?

4. What happens to the rector during the mass where he is visibly tired?

5. What happened to Kate Talbot's husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is revealed about Elinor's past? What is Anna's reaction?

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

3. 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?

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

5. What does Anna take to help her sleep? How does it work? How is it dangerous?

6. Where does Anna end up at the end of the novel? What does she choose as her life's work?

7. Why is Anna crying in the kitchen? How is it therapeutic for her to tell Elinor her feeling about her father?

8. Where does Anna hope she will find relief? How does her knowledge of herbs comfort her?

9. What do the rector and Elinor have their only disagreement over? How is Elinor's reaction significant?

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

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