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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. After Elinor tells Anna her secret, what do they spend the day doing?
(a) Winterizing the Gowdie garden.
(b) Researching herbs that will help them fight the plague.
(c) Packing so that they may flee soon.
(d) Taking poppy to forget their worries.

2. What does the armed woman have in her arms at the Thanksgiving service?
(a) Spells.
(b) Faith.
(c) A serpent.
(d) Hope.

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

4. Why is Anna crying in the rectory kitchen?
(a) Anna is crying because she is in love with the rector.
(b) Anna is crying for Elinor's unborn child.
(c) Anna is crying for her father.
(d) Anna is crying for all the dead children.

5. Why are the simplest tasks hard for Anna in the days after going into the mine?
(a) Because she is sore and bruised from her work in the mine.
(b) Because she has the plague.
(c) Because the cold freezes her limbs.
(d) Because her father beat her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Anna and Elinor go down into the Wickford mine?

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

3. What makes Anna suspect that Elinor is sick?

4. What sad marker does the town come upon in June?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the rector react to Elinor and Anna's actions? What is odd about his reaction when he first sees them?

3. What makes Anna even angrier as she leaves the Mowbrays'? What conclusion does she consider as a result of this?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What path has John Gordon taken? How does he meet his end?

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

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