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

2. Who is the first to come home in Chapter 3 after Hamnet, not knowing Hamnet and Judith are upstairs?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Mary.
(c) Their father.
(d) Susanna.

3. In what part of Hewlands do Agnes and the tutor first kiss in Chapter 2?
(a) The cookhouse.
(b) The apple store.
(c) Her chamber.
(d) The forest.

4. Which character is drunk and spills ale on his paperwork in Chapter 1?
(a) John.
(b) Bartholomew.
(c) Hamnet.
(d) Edmond.

5. In what city is Judith’s father living while she is sick in the apartment?
(a) Bath.
(b) York.
(c) London.
(d) Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the tutor see a young woman holding as he peers out the window at Hewlands?

3. Where does Hamnet’s father work and write about in his letters from London in Chapter 3?

4. What symptoms does Hamnet feel at that start of Chapter 5?

5. What rumor does Eliza tell her brother she has heard in Chapter 4?

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