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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. With what object would Agnes’s stepmother hit her?
(a) A cup.
(b) A broom.
(c) A wooden spoon.
(d) A shoe.

4. What does Hamnet ask his mother about Judith when she sees her upstairs for the first time in Chapter 7?
(a) He asks if he will get sick too.
(b) He asks if his mother is feeling ill.
(c) He asks if Judith has the pestilence.
(d) He asks if Judith will die.

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

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

7. How many years before Judith’s illness does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

8. With what object does Hamnet get hit on the head with in Chapter 1?
(a) A mallet.
(b) A broom.
(c) A cup.
(d) A plate.

9. What was Agnes’s mother doing when she died?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Walking in the forest with her children.
(d) Giving birth.

10. What character is staring out the window of Hewlands at the start of Chapter 2?
(a) Agnes.
(b) The Latin Tutor.
(c) Bartholomew.
(d) Joan.

11. What view from the window at Hewlands is described at the start of Chapter 2?
(a) The town.
(b) The garden.
(c) The forest.
(d) The marketplace.

12. 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 ghost.
(b) A girl.
(c) A man.
(d) A rat.

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

14. 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) Bartholomew and Joan.
(c) Mary and Susanna.
(d) Agnes and her husband.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Agnes wake before dawn when she moves into the apartment after the wedding?

3. Whose initial calmness in regards to Agnes’s pregnancy surprised the tutor in Chapter 4?

4. For what was John fined and ultimately shunned from the community?

5. What has the tutor heard of the eldest daughter at Hewlands?

(see the answer keys)

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