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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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 garden.
(c) The apple store.
(d) Her bedroom.

4. What does the physicians wife ask Hamnet if Judith has before pushing him away?
(a) Buboes.
(b) A stomach ache.
(c) A fever.
(d) A rash.

5. What is the shape of the apartment Agnes and her husband move in to?
(a) An H.
(b) A triangle.
(c) A T.
(d) An A.

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

7. Why does Mary tell Agnes she is upset at Hamnet and Judith when Agnes asks where they are?
(a) They are not helping with dinner.
(b) They did not chop the kindling.
(c) They made a mess of the kitchen.
(d) They played with cats all day.

8. What food is Judith’s father purchasing while Judith is sick in bed in Chapter 1?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Griddle cakes.
(c) Bread.
(d) Goose.

9. Which young character is sick at the start of Hamnet?
(a) Mary.
(b) Hamnet.
(c) Susanna.
(d) Judith.

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

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

12. What does Mary do when she goes to Judith’s room before telling Hamnet to gather wood for a fire?
(a) She grinds petals and roots with a mortar.
(b) She embraces Agnes.
(c) She embraces Hamnet.
(d) She says a prayer.

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

14. Who is the person who gestures to the Latin tutor to go to the parlor after Eliza had told him to go home?
(a) Edmond.
(b) Ned.
(c) John.
(d) Mary.

15. Why does the doctor who comes to see Judith in Chapter 9 dislike Agnes?
(a) He thinks she is a witch.
(b) She never pays him.
(c) She takes his patients from him, reducing his income.
(d) He does not like farmers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character is staring out the window of Hewlands at the start of Chapter 2?

2. Which characters worked out the marriage plan between Agnes and the tutor?

3. Where was John heading when Hamnet passed him on the way to the physician’s house?

4. Who is the Latin tutor shocked to see in the parlor after Eliza had told him to go home in Chapter 4?

5. What smouldering herb does Agnes wave around the beehive in Chapter 1?

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