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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Pp. 245-74.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Hamnet's mother when he is searching for help with Judith?
(a) Hewlands.
(b) The marketplace.
(c) The garden.
(d) The forest.

2. What sign tells Agnes Judith is still alive in Chapter 17?
(a) She moves slightly.
(b) She is breathing.
(c) Her hand is warm.
(d) She feels her heart beat.

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

4. Who comes to the apartment on Henley Street to inspect it before Agnes is able to move in?
(a) Bartholomew.
(b) Thomas.
(c) John.
(d) Joan.

5. How did Eliza and Anne’s brother teach them how to read?
(a) By having them trace over his schoolwork.
(b) Using pieces of straw to make letters.
(c) By tracing letters in dust with his finger.
(d) With a slate he had stolen from school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was it rumored that Agnes’s mother had come from before being taken in by the farmer?

2. With what object would Agnes’s stepmother hit her?

3. Whose money does John, a once prosperous man, rely on in Chapter 1?

4. What is the first animal to die on the cabin boy’s ship?

5. Who is the first to come home in Chapter 3 after Hamnet, not knowing Hamnet and Judith are upstairs?

(see the answer key)

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