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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Agnes wake before dawn when she moves into the apartment after the wedding?
(a) So she can put spells on the family.
(b) Because she wants to cook breakfast since she hates Mary’s cooking.
(c) So she can secretly learn to read.
(d) Because she had lived on a farm and is accustomed to waking early.

2. What happens at her wedding after Agnes silently asks her mother to show her presence?
(a) Rowan berries fall from the tree.
(b) A bird lands on her shoulder.
(c) A clap of thunder is heard.
(d) Snow begins to fall.

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

4. Why did John see Agnes’s pregnancy was a good thing for him?
(a) Because of her dowry.
(b) Because he was going to be a grandfather.
(c) Because he wanted someone to take over his glove business.
(d) Because his son would finally move.

5. Who comes to the door in Chapter 9 and looks like a ghost to Hamnet?
(a) The physician.
(b) Judith.
(c) John.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which child writes the responses to their father’s letters because Agnes does not write well?

2. Why does the doctor who comes to see Judith in Chapter 9 dislike Agnes?

3. What is the shape of the apartment Agnes and her husband move in to?

4. What does Bartholomew whisper to the bridegroom at his sister’s wedding?

5. Who does Agnes find looking pale at the bottom of the stairs at the end of Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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