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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. Why did the tutor need his parent’s permission to marry Agnes?
(a) Because of his young age.
(b) Because they were in debt to Agnes’s family.
(c) Because they were controlling.
(d) Because all marriages required parental permission back then.

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

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

4. What symptoms does Hamnet feel at that start of Chapter 5?
(a) A fever and buboes.
(b) A swollen tongue and trouble swallowing.
(c) Vomiting and diarrhea.
(d) A stomach ache and cold sweats.

5. Who enters at the end of Chapter 3 and commands Susanna help with dinner?
(a) Mary.
(b) John.
(c) Susanna’s father.
(d) Agnes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Agnes’s pregnancy excites the tutor most?

2. When Hamnet returns home in Chapter 3 he is sure his mother will be there and will have given Judith what?

3. When does the father tell them he will come home from London?

4. How did Mary react when her son told her that he was the father of Agnes’s baby?

5. What does Agnes remember her mother’s name to be, despite it never being mentioned after her death?

(see the answer key)

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