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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 is Mary certain of at the start of Chapter 13 based on her own life experience?
(a) Judith will die.
(b) Agnes will get the pestilence.
(c) Agnes will have many more children.
(d) Judith will live.

2. Whose initial calmness in regards to Agnes’s pregnancy surprised the tutor in Chapter 4?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Mary.
(c) John.
(d) Agnes.

3. What does Hamnet do when he pulls the covers over his and his sister’s head in Chapter 13?
(a) He falls asleep.
(b) He breathes his strength and health into her.
(c) He prays.
(d) He holds her and cries.

4. What type of bird does Agnes have when he first sees her outside Hewlands?
(a) A dove.
(b) A pigeon.
(c) A chicken.
(d) A kestrel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Eliza write to to tell about Judith’s declining health?

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

3. Who does Joan tell the Latin Tutor Agnes will be marrying?

4. What physical trait of Agnes’s stepmother was it rumored had something to to with Agnes?

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

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