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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. How many living children did Agnes’s birth mother give birth to?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

2. What does Bartholomew explain to Joan that she does not have the right to decide when they find out Agnes is pregnant?
(a) Where the wedding will be held.
(b) Whether or not Agnes can marry the tutor.
(c) If Agnes can stay in the house.
(d) Where the baby will be born.

3. What has excited the Latin tutor about teaching Latin in Chapter 4?
(a) The debt is nearly paid off.
(b) The boys have been making excellent progress.
(c) He got a raise.
(d) Meeting Agnes.

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

5. What smouldering herb does Agnes wave around the beehive in Chapter 1?
(a) Sage.
(b) Feverfew.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) Chickweed.

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. Who comes to the door in Chapter 9 and looks like a ghost to Hamnet?

3. Who is Hamnet unaware he passed on his way to the physician’s house while they were making glove deliveries?

4. Who does the tutor believe the girl he spotted from the window in Chapter 2 must be?

5. What about Agnes’s pregnancy excites the tutor most?

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