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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are Elinor and the rector wearing at the service?

2. What business does the rector take care of before mourning Elinor's death?

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

4. What does Elinor say when she is delirious?

5. What is strange about the rector's reaction when he sees Elinor and Anna at the tavern?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why is Anna so angry with the Mowbrays? Who has influenced them to do these actions?

7. What image of Elinor's death does the author convey? What might this symbolize or show about Anna's view of Elinor?

8. Why does Anna take Anteros for a ride? What do you think this symbolizes?

9. What child do Anna and Elinor help? What do they do to help this child?

10. Why is the rector summoned to Christopher Unwin's house? Why does Anna see Christopher again later, bloody and naked?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about Anna's role in the rectory. Do you think she was just a servant? Why? Do you think her role as a leader evolves greatly throughout the novel? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Think about the difference between the Gowdie garden and Elinor's garden. Are Mem's and Anys's fates much different from Elinor's? How might these gardens affect their deaths? Think specifically about the reasons for these characters' deaths and each garden's instrumentality in the survival of the village.

Essay Topic 3

Think about Anna's adoration of her children. What does Aphra tell her about this? How are the tables turned later on in the book? Is Aphra's heart truly hardened, as Anna says? Be sure to use examples.

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