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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens at her wedding after Agnes silently asks her mother to show her presence?
(a) Snow begins to fall.
(b) A clap of thunder is heard.
(c) A bird lands on her shoulder.
(d) Rowan berries fall from the tree.

2. Where is the Latin tutor when Eliza gets him to tell him he needs to go home in Chapter 4?
(a) The library.
(b) His father’s stand at the market.
(c) The tavern.
(d) The attic.

3. Where was it rumored that Agnes’s mother had come from before being taken in by the farmer?
(a) The streets.
(b) The forest.
(c) The city.
(d) An orphanage.

4. What does Susanna imagine other mothers are doing while her mother is out “gathering weeds...muddying her boots” (53)?
(a) Washing their children’s muddied clothing.
(b) Feeding their children bread and stew.
(c) Mending clothes.
(d) Scrubbing floors.

5. With whom does Agnes speak briefly at the market in Chapter 10?
(a) The maid.
(b) The butcher.
(c) The dairyman.
(d) The baker’s wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which young character is sick at the start of Hamnet?

2. What happens when the glass maker returns to Murano after the cabin boy helped him with his boxes?

3. Who does the tutor believe the girl he spotted from the window in Chapter 2 must be?

4. Where does Agnes go to birth her child in Chapter 10?

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

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