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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the glover’s children seemed to endure the brunt of his rages?
(a) His eldest daughter.
(b) His eldest son.
(c) His youngest daughter.
(d) His youngest son.

2. How does Eliza’s brother describe Agnes to her?
(a) Well-read and highly educated.
(b) Gentle, caring, and unique.
(c) Funny and Silly.
(d) Evil and manipulative.

3. How old was Mary’s daughter when she died of the pestilence years earlier?
(a) 4.
(b) 11.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

4. Where was it rumored that Agnes’s mother had come from before being taken in by the farmer?
(a) The streets.
(b) The forest.
(c) The city.
(d) An orphanage.

5. Which of her husband’s relatives does Agnes foresee dying after having many children?
(a) Eliza.
(b) John.
(c) Edmond.
(d) Anne.

6. What happens at her wedding after Agnes silently asks her mother to show her presence?
(a) A clap of thunder is heard.
(b) Rowan berries fall from the tree.
(c) Snow begins to fall.
(d) A bird lands on her shoulder.

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

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

9. Why does John believe Hamnet will take over the glove business?
(a) Because he is good at glove making.
(b) Because he is a boy.
(c) Because he is very smart.
(d) Because he is business savvy.

10. Agnes vows she will leave Hewlands when she finds this, which she got from her mother.
(a) An herb garden.
(b) Someone who can see into the future.
(c) The other half of a locket.
(d) Unconditional love.

11. What is in the parcel the doctor gives them to tie around Judith’s stomach?
(a) Goose eggs.
(b) Dried toad.
(c) Chicken feet.
(d) Dried rosemary.

12. Why does Agnes wake before dawn when she moves into the apartment after the wedding?
(a) So she can secretly learn to read.
(b) So she can put spells on the family.
(c) Because she wants to cook breakfast since she hates Mary’s cooking.
(d) Because she had lived on a farm and is accustomed to waking early.

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

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

15. Who is Hamnet unaware he passed on his way to the physician’s house while they were making glove deliveries?
(a) Mary and Judith.
(b) Mary and Susanna.
(c) Bartholomew and Joan.
(d) Agnes and her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was a deal made for the glover’s son to go to Hewlands twice a week?

2. What type of bird does Agnes have when he first sees her outside Hewlands?

3. What food is Judith’s father purchasing while Judith is sick in bed in Chapter 1?

4. What has excited the Latin tutor about teaching Latin in Chapter 4?

5. What did Eliza and her brother find in the attic which upset their father?

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