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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. While Judith is in bed hallucinating, why is the maid taking so long to buy the milk?
(a) She stopped at the tavern.
(b) She is flirting with the dairyman.
(c) She got lost.
(d) She is visiting a sick friend.

2. Who does Agnes find looking pale at the bottom of the stairs at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Judith.
(b) Hamnet.
(c) Susanna.
(d) Her husband.

3. Who finds Agnes while she is on her way to the forest to give birth in Chapter 116?
(a) Mary.
(b) Eliza.
(c) John.
(d) Gilbert.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary not want to leave Agnes alone at the end of her pregnancy in Chapter 16?

2. What does Agnes’s mother call her garden?

3. Who carries Agnes away after she has given birth to Susanna?

4. Who helps Judith’s father get a horse to go to Stratford after he receives the letter of her ailing health?

5. How did Mary react when her son told her that he was the father of Agnes’s baby?

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