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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first moment Agnes cries after Hamnet’s death?
(a) When she is first alone with his body.
(b) When Mary comes to help her.
(c) When her husband comes home.
(d) When Judith asks if he will ever come back.

2. 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.

3. What does Hamnet’s body lie on top of at the start of Part II?
(a) A door laid across two barrels.
(b) The couch.
(c) The table.
(d) A pallet on the floor.

4. How does Agnes behave after Hamnet’s death?
(a) She spends most of her time at Hewlands.
(b) She is depressed and cannot cook or clean.
(c) She keeps busy so as not to focus on her loss.
(d) She becomes angry at everyone.

5. Why does Agnes’s husband worry about leaving London even after the roads are clear?
(a) He worries he will lose his place as a playwright.
(b) He worries he cannot afford it.
(c) He does not wish to acknowledge Hamnet has died.
(d) He has a fear of traveling.

6. After Agnes has the twins, why does it become unlikely the family will join their father in London?
(a) They cannot afford a home for them all.
(b) Susanna is in poor health.
(c) Judith is in poor health.
(d) Agnes comes to like Henley Street.

7. Who carries Hamnet’s body to the burial site?
(a) Hamnet’s father and Bartholomew.
(b) Bartholomew and Edmond.
(c) Hamnet’s father and uncle Edmond.
(d) Hamnet’s father and grandfather.

8. While in labor in Chapter 16, Agnes thinks of a letter from her husband describing what in great detail?
(a) His apartment.
(b) Gloves.
(c) Costumes.
(d) The streets of London.

9. What does Judith tell Agnes when she finds her making Hamnet's shroud in Part II?
(a) That it is Agnes’s fault for not being home.
(b) That she refuses to live without him.
(c) That she hates her father for not being there.
(d) That his death was her fault.

10. Chapter 11 describes the events that needed to take place in order for the pestilence to reach where in 1596?
(a) Warwickshire, England.
(b) The Hewlands.
(c) London, England.
(d) Oxford, England.

11. Who does Eliza write to to tell about Judith’s declining health?
(a) Her father.
(b) Bartholomew.
(c) Joan.
(d) Her brother.

12. What year is it at the start of Chapter 10?
(a) 1683.
(b) 1483.
(c) 1603.
(d) 1583.

13. How does Hamnet feel after waking after Mary leaves to mail the letter Eliza wrote?
(a) Delirious.
(b) Energized.
(c) Nauseous.
(d) He has a pain in his head.

14. What insect comes between Agnes’s brother and husband allowing her husband to free himself from Bartholomew’s grasp in Chapter 10?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A mosquito.
(c) A flea.
(d) A bee.

15. Why does Agnes go outside in the middle of the night in Part II?
(a) She thinks her husband has come home.
(b) She hears feet outside her window.
(c) She is sleepwalking.
(d) She hears her son’s cry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Shakespearen play is quoted at the beginning of Part II of Hamnet?

2. What happens to Hamnet at the very end of Chapter 17?

3. What does Agnes notice about Hamnet when she wakes in Chapter 17?

4. What does Hamnet decide he is going to trick death into doing in Chapter 13?

5. What does Agnes make Mary promise her when Agnes thinks she is going to die after giving birth to twins?

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