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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to the door in Chapter 9 and looks like a ghost to Hamnet?
(a) John.
(b) The physician.
(c) His father.
(d) Judith.

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

3. Which of her husband’s relatives does Agnes foresee dying after having many children?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Anne.
(c) John.
(d) Edmond.

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

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

6. Why does Agnes wake before dawn when she moves into the apartment after the wedding?
(a) Because she had lived on a farm and is accustomed to waking early.
(b) So she can secretly learn to read.
(c) Because she wants to cook breakfast since she hates Mary’s cooking.
(d) So she can put spells on the family.

7. Which characters worked out the marriage plan between Agnes and the tutor?
(a) Joan and the tutor.
(b) John and Bartholomew.
(c) Joan and Agnes.
(d) Agnes and the tutor.

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

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

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

11. How did Mary react when her son told her that he was the father of Agnes’s baby?
(a) She stormed out of the parlor.
(b) She beat him with her fists.
(c) She got on her knees and prayed.
(d) She hugged Agnes.

12. What color is Agnes’s wedding dress?
(a) Rose.
(b) Primrose.
(c) Cream.
(d) Lavender.

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

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

15. Why does the priest place a linen on the bride and bridegroom at the wedding in Chapter 6?
(a) So nobody can see Agnes is pregnant.
(b) So nobody can see them kiss.
(c) To protect them from evil.
(d) To unite them as one.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Eliza and Anne’s brother teach them how to read?

2. Who was Hewlands left to after Agnes’s father died?

3. What does the tutor see a young woman holding as he peers out the window at Hewlands?

4. What does the physicians wife ask Hamnet if Judith has before pushing him away?

5. Whose money does John, a once prosperous man, rely on in Chapter 1?

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