2. What does Mary help Agnes do at night after everyone has left after Hamnet died?
(a) Clean his body.
(b) Pick flowers.
(c) Make the shroud.
(d) Write to her husband.

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

4. What are Mary and her son fighting about at the start of Chapter 14?
(a) His lack of work.
(b) His wife’s strange behavior.
(c) Him having more children.
(d) Him moving to London.

5. Where does Agnes’s husband begin working after he stops selling gloves in London?
(a) Playhouses.
(b) An inn.
(c) A glassmaker’s shop.
(d) A tavern.

6. Who does Agnes’s husband say has enjoyed his newest play when he writes them in Part II?
(a) The Prince.
(b) The Queen.
(c) The princess.
(d) The King.

7. What is Judith doing when she sees her father walking down Henley Street in Part II?
(a) Washing clothes.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Playing with kitten.
(d) Playing with Edmond’s dog.

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

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

10. 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 flea.
(c) A bee.
(d) A mosquito.

11. What is the first animal to die on the cabin boy’s ship?
(a) A rat.
(b) A cat.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A dog.

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

13. Why does Mary not want to leave Agnes alone at the end of her pregnancy in Chapter 16?
(a) Agnes is so large she feels she needs help with everything.
(b) She does not think Agnes capable of caring for herself let alone her daughter.
(c) She had a premonition Agnes died giving birth.
(d) She is worried Agnes will go to the forest to give birth.

14. What happens to the artisan’s fingers after the disastrous event in his workplace?
(a) They cannot move.
(b) They are stuck together.
(c) They turn black.
(d) They have to be amputated.

15. Where does the cabin boy encounter a man with two amputated fingers in Chapter 11?
(a) Venice.
(b) Murano.
(c) Ragusa.
(d) London.