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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Pp. 245-74.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Joan say about the Latin tutor’s father when she sees him holding hands with Agnes in Chapter 4?
(a) That he owed everyone in town.
(b) That he is never seen at church.
(c) That he was a drunk.
(d) That he is a scoundrel.

3. What does Mary tell Agnes she must do to her son after he is born because she did it to her sons and they all grew to be strong?
(a) Nurse him.
(b) Rock him.
(c) Sing to him.
(d) Swaddle him.

4. Who helps Agnes’s husband broker a deal for a new home for Agnes and her children?
(a) Gilbert.
(b) John.
(c) Edmond.
(d) Bartholomew.

5. What objects of Hamnet’s is Agnes sitting with when her daughters get her to gather rosehips?
(a) His pebble collection.
(b) His letters.
(c) His clothing.
(d) His coin collection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Latin tutor shocked to see in the parlor after Eliza had told him to go home in Chapter 4?

2. For what was John fined and ultimately shunned from the community?

3. While in labor in Chapter 16, Agnes thinks of a letter from her husband describing what in great detail?

4. What is the name of the market Agnes stops at in the start of Chapter 10?

5. Where was it rumored that Agnes’s mother had come from before being taken in by the farmer?

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