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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. What has the tutor heard of the eldest daughter at Hewlands?
(a) She is wealthy.
(b) She is well educated.
(c) She is beautiful.
(d) She might be a witch.

2. What was Agnes’s mother doing when she died?
(a) Giving birth.
(b) Gardening.
(c) Walking in the forest with her children.
(d) Cooking.

3. Why was a deal made for the glover’s son to go to Hewlands twice a week?
(a) To teach him responsibility.
(b) To pay off a debt.
(c) To entice the eldest daughter to marry him.
(d) To earn his own money.

4. What character is staring out the window of Hewlands at the start of Chapter 2?
(a) The Latin Tutor.
(b) Joan.
(c) Bartholomew.
(d) Agnes.

5. What does the physicians wife ask Hamnet if Judith has before pushing him away?
(a) Buboes.
(b) A fever.
(c) A stomach ache.
(d) A rash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Joan tell the Latin Tutor Agnes will be marrying?

2. Who entered Hewlands and stopped Joan from hitting Agnes when she discovered she was pregnant?

3. What smouldering herb does Agnes wave around the beehive in Chapter 1?

4. What does Susanna imagine other mothers are doing while her mother is out “gathering weeds...muddying her boots” (53)?

5. How did Eliza and Anne’s brother teach them how to read?

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