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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 17, Part II, pp. 217-244. .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What physical trait of Agnes’s stepmother was it rumored had something to to with Agnes?
(a) The rash on her hands.
(b) The boils on her face.
(c) The cut on her lip.
(d) Her limp.

2. Who entered Hewlands and stopped Joan from hitting Agnes when she discovered she was pregnant?
(a) Eliza.
(b) The Latin tutor.
(c) Bartholomew.
(d) John.

3. What rumor does Eliza tell her brother she has heard in Chapter 4?
(a) That his father’s business is closing.
(b) That he has been seeing Agnes.
(c) That Agnes is engaged.
(d) That his father’s debt will never be paid off.

4. What member of Agnes’s family ends up handling the box of glass beads and rags from Murano?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Judith.
(c) Hamnet.
(d) Bartholomew.

5. What did John ask his son when they were alone after Agnes’s pregnancy was revealed?
(a) Why he wanted to marry that witch.
(b) If he has impregnated anyone else.
(c) If he really was the father.
(d) If he knew what a responsibility parenthood was.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the cabin boy encounter a man with two amputated fingers in Chapter 11?

2. What did Eliza and her brother find in the attic which upset their father?

3. What name does Joan call Agnes when she discovered she was pregnant?

4. Whose initial calmness in regards to Agnes’s pregnancy surprised the tutor in Chapter 4?

5. What does the animal the cabin boy encountered leave on his body before his owner jerks him away?

(see the answer key)

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