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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Agnes make Mary promise her when Agnes thinks she is going to die after giving birth to twins?
(a) Make her son move back to Henley Street.
(b) Give the children to Bartholomew.
(c) Make sure Joan does not raise her children.
(d) Send her children to London.

2. Who built the apartment in which Hamnet and his family live?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) His father.
(d) His uncle.

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

4. What was the name of Eliza and her brother’s older sibling who died?
(a) Mary.
(b) Agnes.
(c) Judith.
(d) Anne.

5. Who carries Agnes away after she has given birth to Susanna?
(a) Bartholomew.
(b) Her husband.
(c) John.
(d) Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Agnes go to birth her child in Chapter 10?

2. What does Hamnet’s grandmother tell him he looks like when he goes to get her at the cookhouse per his mother’s instructions in Chapter 7?

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

4. Who lives in the apartment with Hamnet?

5. Chapter 11 describes the events that needed to take place in order for the pestilence to reach where in 1596?

(see the answer key)

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