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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 is Judith doing when she sees her father walking down Henley Street in Part II?
(a) Washing clothes.
(b) Playing with Edmond’s dog.
(c) Playing with kitten.
(d) Sewing.

2. What animals were Hamnet and his sister playing with when she first complained of a headache?
(a) Birds.
(b) Kittens.
(c) Puppies.
(d) Squirrels.

3. What does Hamnet ask his mother about Judith when she sees her upstairs for the first time in Chapter 7?
(a) He asks if Judith has the pestilence.
(b) He asks if his mother is feeling ill.
(c) He asks if Judith will die.
(d) He asks if he will get sick too.

4. Which child writes the responses to their father’s letters because Agnes does not write well?
(a) Susanna.
(b) Hamnet.
(c) Edmond.
(d) Judith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the ship men do with the cats after they die on the cabin boy’s ship in Chapter 11?

2. What was Agnes’s mother doing when she died?

3. Who is the first person seeking a cure that Agnes agrees to see after Hamnet’s death?

4. How old was Mary’s daughter when she died of the pestilence years earlier?

5. Who is the first to come home in Chapter 3 after Hamnet, not knowing Hamnet and Judith are upstairs?

(see the answer key)

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