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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters 4 & 5 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what object would Agnes’s stepmother hit her?
(a) A broom.
(b) A cup.
(c) A shoe.
(d) A wooden spoon.

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

3. Which characters worked out the marriage plan between Agnes and the tutor?
(a) Joan and the tutor.
(b) John and Bartholomew.
(c) Joan and Agnes.
(d) Agnes and the tutor.

4. Where is Hamnet's mother when he is searching for help with Judith?
(a) The marketplace.
(b) The forest.
(c) The garden.
(d) Hewlands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Agnes’s mother call her garden?

2. How many years before Judith’s illness does Chapter 2 begin?

3. What was the name of Eliza and her brother’s older sibling who died?

4. What did the Latin tutor begin to do on the days he did not have to tutor?

5. Where does Agnes go after dropping honey and herbs off at home without realizing Hamnet and Judith are upstairs?

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