Year Of Wonders Quotes

Question 1

What happens in Ring of Roses?

Answer 1

. George Viccars, a tailor, becomes Anna’s lodger
. Viccars shows an interest in Anna and makes her a green dress
. Viccars gets plague from the Silk Road fabrics and dies
. Anna is taught to read by Elinor Mompellion
. Witchcraft is feared, Mem and Anys Gowdie

Question 2

What happens in The Thunder of His Voice?

Answer 2

. Mompellion likened to God in chapter title
. Anna learns Viccars and Anys were having sexual rendezvous
. Anys tells Anna that Viccars wanted to marry her
. Anna tells this to Lib Hancock
. Bradford dinner
. Henry Bradford was in civil war (monarchy vs. parliament)
. Plague in london is mentioned by a traveller

Question 3

What happens in Rat Fall?

Answer 3

. Edward Hadfield gets plague and dies
. Surgeon advises everyone should leave the town immediately
. Tom, Anna’s son, dies of the plague
. Aphra reprimands Anna for loving her young children

Question 4

What happens in Sign of A Witch?

Answer 4

. Jamie dies of plague
. Mem Gowdie is accused of witchcraft and is forced to a trial by water
. Anna and Anys save Mem
. The town accuses Anys of witchcraft and hangs her for it
. Mompellion condemns those who hanged Anys

Question 5

What happens in Venom in the Blood?

Answer 5

. Mem Gowdie dies of coughing sickness from almost drowning
. Mr Stanley talks with Mompellion
. Mompellion tells the people to stay in the town to endure the plague and not spread it
. Bradfords move to leave

Question 6

What happens in Wide Green Prison?

Answer 6

. Mompellion tries to convince Bradfords to stay but they leave anyway
. Anna is the midwife for Mary Daniels’ child
. Anna’s mother died when she was young while giving birth to her stillborn sister

Question 7

What happens in Soon To Be Dust?

Answer 7

. The Bradfords Cook, Mary, has a stroke
. Anna takes Mary in but she dies of a second stroke anyway
. Josiah Bont abuses Anna in the miner’s pub

Question 8

What happens in The Poppies of Lethe?

Answer 8

. Anna uses poppy resin twice (heroin)
. Lib Hancock dies of the plague
. Kate Talbot uses witchcraft to try and save her husband and claims ghost of Anys
. Anna looks for more poppy at Gowdie house and finds Elinor
. Elinor talks of how she was addicted to the poppy once after giving herself an abortion for a child she had when she was a teenager during an affair as a rich girl

Question 9

What happens in Among those that go down to the Pit?

Answer 9

. Mompellion is made to dig all the graves in town after sexton death
. Anna and Elinor team up to help Quaker girl Merry Wickford to claim her family lead mine
. Anna nearly dies by using same mining method that killed Sam
. Elinor saves Anna’s life
. Merry gets to keep her family’s mining seam
. The church is closed down for hygiene

Question 10

What happens in The Body of the Mine?

Answer 10

. Josiah takes up digging graves for money
. Josiah attempts to kill Christopher so he may dig his grave and take his money
. Josiah is sentenced to death by body of mine and killed
. Anna does not speak at his trial
. Aphra shows tendency to paganism

Question 11

What happens in The Press of their Ghosts?

Answer 11

. Anna breaks down at fathers death
. More witchcraft shows around town
. John Gordon becomes a flagellant and dies as a result
. More flagellants appear in his wake
. Mompellion shows hostility to a young drunken girl

Question 12

What happens in A Great Burning?

Answer 12

. Elinor contracts a fever and nearly dies
. The town burns all their possessions
. Aphra is revealed to be the ghost of Anys
. Aphra becomes more involved in witchcraft

Question 13

What happens in Deliverance?

Answer 13

. The plague has left the town
. People return to Eyam
. Aphra turns wild at outdoor sermon and brings her rotting dead plague child
. Aphra kills Elinor

Question 14

What happens in the second Apple-picking Time?

Answer 14

. Anna tries to fill Elinor’s role
. Anna starts a romantic relationship with Michael
. Anna learns Michael did not touch Elinor throughout their whole relationship to punish her for her affair and abortion
. Anna delivers the Bradfords bastard baby
. Elizabeth Bradford tries to kill the bastard
. Anna takes the bastard into her custody and leaves Eyam

Question 15

What happens in The Waves, like ridges of Plough’d Land?

Answer 15

. Anna moves to the Middle East
. Anna marries Muslim doctor to help him with her work but not for romantic or sexual gain
. Anna has Michael Mompellions child and names her Elinor

Question 16

Describe the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century?

Answer 16

. Came from fleas on black rats
. Symptoms of buboes, headache, fever, chills and fatigue
. Came from Silk Road

Question 17

Describe seventeenth century witchcraft.

Answer 17

. Women were classified as witches for birthmarks, pets or being an intelligent widow or single woman
. Trials were trials by water, burning at the stake and hangings

Question 18

Quotes about Michael Mompellion

Answer 18

. “I’d forgotten what his eyes could do- what they could make us do.”
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Question 19

Quotes for female empowerment.

Answer 19

“There was something in her that could not, or would not, see the distinctions that the world wished to make between weak and strong, between women and men…”
“She was quick of mind and swift of tongue.”
“I will not be made a man’s chattel.”

Question 20

Quotes about Elinor.

Answer 20

“But I do it. I do it for her. I tell myself I do it for her. Why else would I do it, after all?”

“Her frail body was paired with a sinewy mind.”

Question 21

Quotes about Anna.

Answer 21

“I wonder if you know how you have changed.”

“It’s as if there were two of me, walking down those stairs.”

Question 22

Quotes about paganism.

Answer 22

“…pagans, too, are children of God.”

Question 23

Quotes about plague foreshadowing.

Answer 23

“I will certainly stand and face the lion.”

“If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.”

Question 24

What happens in the first Apple-picking time?

Answer 24

. Anna tries to feed anteros apples and he attacks
. Michael mompellion also attacks when Anna tries to read the bible to him
. Elizabeth Bradford returns to ask for help
. Mompellion turns her down abruptly

Question 25

Quotes against God.

Answer 25

“Why, I wondered, was God so much more prodigal with his Creation… Why should this good woman lie here, in such extremity, when a man like my father lived to waste his reason in drunkenness?”

(Losing Faith, Aphra. Mompellion not going to Faith’s funeral, giving up on faith)