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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has the tutor heard of the eldest daughter at Hewlands?
(a) She is beautiful.
(b) She is wealthy.
(c) She is well educated.
(d) She might be a witch.

2. What does Agnes do while Bartholomew and Joan are still discussing Agnes’s pregnancy?
(a) She hides in the forest.
(b) She packs her things and leaves Hewlands.
(c) She argues with them.
(d) She writes a letter to the Latin tutor.

3. Which child writes the responses to their father’s letters because Agnes does not write well?
(a) Susanna.
(b) Judith.
(c) Edmond.
(d) Hamnet.

4. What does Agnes remember her mother’s name to be, despite it never being mentioned after her death?
(a) Rowan.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Mary.
(d) Joan.

5. How many living children did Agnes’s birth mother give birth to?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

6. Who is the Latin tutor shocked to see in the parlor after Eliza had told him to go home in Chapter 4?
(a) Joan.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Bartholomew.

7. What physical trait of Agnes’s stepmother was it rumored had something to to with Agnes?
(a) The boils on her face.
(b) Her limp.
(c) The cut on her lip.
(d) The rash on her hands.

8. What does Agnes’s mother call her garden?
(a) The healer’s haven.
(b) The heavenly sanctuary.
(c) The witch’s garden.
(d) The fairy garden.

9. Who is described as being in a joyful mood on the day of the wedding?
(a) The bridegroom.
(b) Mary.
(c) Joan.
(d) John.

10. What does Joan say about the Latin tutor’s father when she sees him holding hands with Agnes in Chapter 4?
(a) That he was a drunk.
(b) That he is a scoundrel.
(c) That he is never seen at church.
(d) That he owed everyone in town.

11. What smouldering herb does Agnes wave around the beehive in Chapter 1?
(a) Chickweed.
(b) Sage.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) Feverfew.

12. Where was John heading when Hamnet passed him on the way to the physician’s house?
(a) The post office.
(b) The tavern.
(c) The inn.
(d) His workshop.

13. Why was a deal made for the glover’s son to go to Hewlands twice a week?
(a) To pay off a debt.
(b) To entice the eldest daughter to marry him.
(c) To earn his own money.
(d) To teach him responsibility.

14. Who does Agnes’s father marry after her mother dies?
(a) Jane.
(b) Joan.
(c) Judith.
(d) Jan.

15. What does Bartholomew explain to Joan that she does not have the right to decide when they find out Agnes is pregnant?
(a) Where the baby will be born.
(b) Whether or not Agnes can marry the tutor.
(c) If Agnes can stay in the house.
(d) Where the wedding will be held.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who enters at the end of Chapter 3 and commands Susanna help with dinner?

2. How old was Mary’s daughter when she died of the pestilence years earlier?

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

4. Who agrees to marry Agnes and the tutor in their small wedding?

5. Where is the Latin tutor when Eliza gets him to tell him he needs to go home in Chapter 4?

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