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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Eliza’s brother tell her gave Agnes the kestrel?
(a) Her brother.
(b) A priest.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

2. Who does Joan tell the Latin Tutor Agnes will be marrying?
(a) A government official.
(b) An innkeeper.
(c) A schoolteacher.
(d) A farmer.

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

4. What street does Agnes and her family live on with her husband’s family?
(a) Henley Street.
(b) Harley Street.
(c) Hewlands Street.
(d) Howland Street.

5. Where does Agnes go after dropping honey and herbs off at home without realizing Hamnet and Judith are upstairs?
(a) Back to Hewlands.
(b) The market.
(c) The guildhall.
(d) The cookhouse.

6. What does Susanna imagine other mothers are doing while her mother is out “gathering weeds...muddying her boots” (53)?
(a) Washing their children’s muddied clothing.
(b) Scrubbing floors.
(c) Mending clothes.
(d) Feeding their children bread and stew.

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

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

9. 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 Judith.
(c) Bartholomew and Joan.
(d) Mary and Susanna.

10. After Hamnet is unable to find his family, who does he tell Judith he will look for to help?
(a) The innkeeper.
(b) The physician.
(c) The baker’s wife.
(d) The maid.

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

12. Who does the tutor believe the girl he spotted from the window in Chapter 2 must be?
(a) A niece.
(b) A servant.
(c) A stranger.
(d) A cousin.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While Judith is in bed hallucinating, why is the maid taking so long to buy the milk?

2. What does Eliza offer to do for Agnes at the start of Chapter 6?

3. Where does Hamnet’s father work and write about in his letters from London in Chapter 3?

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

5. Who entered Hewlands and stopped Joan from hitting Agnes when she discovered she was pregnant?

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