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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, 275-305.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Agnes find on the desk in her husband’s apartment in London?
(a) Another woman’s bracelet.
(b) Empty ale glasses.
(c) A woman’s hair pin.
(d) A letter to her.

2. When Hamnet returns home in Chapter 3 he is sure his mother will be there and will have given Judith what?
(a) One of her magic tinctures.
(b) Medicine from the physician.
(c) A bath.
(d) Her healing hugs.

3. Who is the person who is certain where Agnes has gone to give birth in chapter 10?
(a) Mary.
(b) Agnes’s husband.
(c) Bartholomew.
(d) Joan.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people often ask Susanna about which irritates her?

2. What does Agnes do while Bartholomew and Joan are still discussing Agnes’s pregnancy?

3. How old was Agnes when she predicted that death of a visitor?

4. What symptoms does Hamnet feel at that start of Chapter 5?

5. What year is it at the start of Chapter 10?

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