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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sign tells Agnes Judith is still alive in Chapter 17?
(a) She feels her heart beat.
(b) Her hand is warm.
(c) She is breathing.
(d) She moves slightly.

2. What does Agnes suspect her husband has been doing in London when he first visits after Hamnet’s funeral?
(a) Seeing other women.
(b) Drinking too much.
(c) Working too hard.
(d) Not working at all.

3. What happens when the glass maker returns to Murano after the cabin boy helped him with his boxes?
(a) So many coworkers fall ill they have to stop production.
(b) He dies.
(c) Work is so backed up he cannot rest.
(d) He gets married.

4. What does the animal the cabin boy encountered leave on his body before his owner jerks him away?
(a) Feces.
(b) Bite marks.
(c) Urine.
(d) Three fleas.

5. What animal catches the cabin boy’s attention after he leaves the ship in Chapter 11?
(a) A squirrel.
(b) A cat.
(c) A dog.
(d) A monkey.

6. Where does Bartholomew suggest Agnes’s husband go for work after she tells her brother of his mood?
(a) The guildhall.
(b) Oxford.
(c) London.
(d) Hewlands.

7. Who tells Agnes that they will see to the funeral arrangements in Part II?
(a) Joan.
(b) John.
(c) Bartholomew.
(d) Mary.

8. What does Hamnet decide he is going to trick death into doing in Chapter 13?
(a) Finding someone else.
(b) Letting him go with his sister.
(c) Leaving them alone.
(d) Taking him instead of his sister.

9. What do the ship men do with the cats after they die on the cabin boy’s ship in Chapter 11?
(a) Feed them to the rats.
(b) Throw them overboard.
(c) Leave them alone.
(d) Pack them into crates.

10. What does Agnes try to do in Hamnet’s room at night in Part II but is unsuccessful?
(a) Put away his pallet.
(b) Burn his bedding.
(c) Pack his things.
(d) Summon his spirit.

11. What happens to Hamnet at the very end of Chapter 17?
(a) He recovers.
(b) He dies.
(c) He eats soup.
(d) He is taken by the physician.

12. Who helps Agnes’s husband broker a deal for a new home for Agnes and her children?
(a) John.
(b) Gilbert.
(c) Bartholomew.
(d) Edmond.

13. What does Agnes notice about Hamnet when she wakes in Chapter 17?
(a) He fell asleep.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He has left.
(d) He has been up all night stoking the fire.

14. Which family member is said to cry constantly after Hamnet’s death in Part II?
(a) Mary.
(b) John.
(c) Judith.
(d) Edmond.

15. Who helps Judith’s father get a horse to go to Stratford after he receives the letter of her ailing health?
(a) A fellow playwright.
(b) An actor.
(c) A stranger.
(d) Heminge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the person who is certain where Agnes has gone to give birth in chapter 10?

2. Where does Agnes’s husband tell her he wants to buy a house for the family?

3. Chapter 11 describes the events that needed to take place in order for the pestilence to reach where in 1596?

4. Who carries Agnes away after she has given birth to Susanna?

5. What expensive item does Agnes’s husband give to her on his visit in Part II?

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