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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. What does Joan tell Agnes when Agnes tells her she wants to marry the Latin tutor?
(a) That Bartholomew will not let her.
(b) That she can do what she wants.
(c) That she will be banished from Hewlands.
(d) That she will not allow it.

2. Why did the tutor need his parent’s permission to marry Agnes?
(a) Because they were controlling.
(b) Because they were in debt to Agnes’s family.
(c) Because of his young age.
(d) Because all marriages required parental permission back then.

3. What animals were Hamnet and his sister playing with when she first complained of a headache?
(a) Squirrels.
(b) Kittens.
(c) Puppies.
(d) Birds.

4. What does Eliza offer to do for Agnes at the start of Chapter 6?
(a) Bake her wedding cake.
(b) Sew her wedding gown.
(c) Make her wedding crown.
(d) Walk her down the aisle.

5. Why does the priest place a linen on the bride and bridegroom at the wedding in Chapter 6?
(a) So nobody can see Agnes is pregnant.
(b) To protect them from evil.
(c) To unite them as one.
(d) So nobody can see them kiss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Agnes notice about Hamnet when she wakes in Chapter 17?

2. Which family member is described as being “furious with the world” (236) after Hamnet’s death?

3. What was Agnes’s mother doing when she died?

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

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

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