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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John ask his son when they were alone after Agnes’s pregnancy was revealed?
(a) If he knew what a responsibility parenthood was.
(b) Why he wanted to marry that witch.
(c) If he really was the father.
(d) If he has impregnated anyone else.

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

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

4. 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 will be banished from Hewlands.
(c) That she will not allow it.
(d) That she can do what she wants.

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

6. In what part of Hewlands do Agnes and the Latin tutor make love for the first time in Chapter 4?
(a) The henhouse.
(b) Her bedroom.
(c) Her garden.
(d) The apple store.

7. What type of bird does Agnes have when he first sees her outside Hewlands?
(a) A kestrel.
(b) A pigeon.
(c) A chicken.
(d) A dove.

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

9. Who is the first to come home in Chapter 3 after Hamnet, not knowing Hamnet and Judith are upstairs?
(a) Their father.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Mary.

10. Where is the Latin tutor when Eliza gets him to tell him he needs to go home in Chapter 4?
(a) The tavern.
(b) His father’s stand at the market.
(c) The attic.
(d) The library.

11. Which character is drunk and spills ale on his paperwork in Chapter 1?
(a) Bartholomew.
(b) John.
(c) Hamnet.
(d) Edmond.

12. What name does Joan call Agnes when she discovered she was pregnant?
(a) Whore.
(b) Prostitute.
(c) Fustylugs.
(d) Trollop.

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

14. What symptoms does Hamnet feel at that start of Chapter 5?
(a) Vomiting and diarrhea.
(b) A fever and buboes.
(c) A swollen tongue and trouble swallowing.
(d) A stomach ache and cold sweats.

15. What does Hamnet’s grandmother tell him he looks like when he goes to get her at the cookhouse per his mother’s instructions in Chapter 7?
(a) A girl.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A man.
(d) A rat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Agnes vows she will leave Hewlands when she finds this, which she got from her mother.

2. What does Hamnet notice on Judith’s neck after he returns to her chamber in Chapter 1?

3. In what part of Hewlands do Agnes and the tutor first kiss in Chapter 2?

4. What street does Agnes and her family live on with her husband’s family?

5. Who does Agnes find looking pale at the bottom of the stairs at the end of Chapter 5?

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