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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is sent to Hewlands to look for Agnes in Chapter 10 while she is in labor?
(a) John.
(b) Ned.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Edmond.

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

4. What do the coworker of the artisan use to cushion the glass beads before shipping them off?
(a) Wood shavings.
(b) Rags.
(c) Sand.
(d) Sheets.

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

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

7. What does Agnes make Mary promise her when Agnes thinks she is going to die after giving birth to twins?
(a) Give the children to Bartholomew.
(b) Send her children to London.
(c) Make sure Joan does not raise her children.
(d) Make her son move back to Henley Street.

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

9. What word does Agnes repeat while laboring in Chapter 10?
(a) Susanna.
(b) Rowan.
(c) Forest.
(d) Kestrel.

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

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

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

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

14. What is Mary certain of at the start of Chapter 13 based on her own life experience?
(a) Judith will die.
(b) Agnes will get the pestilence.
(c) Agnes will have many more children.
(d) Judith will live.

15. What does Judith make to keep the lock of Hamnet’s hair his mother had cut off?
(a) A silk pouch.
(b) A leather pouch.
(c) A wooden box.
(d) A glass bowl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal catches the cabin boy’s attention after he leaves the ship in Chapter 11?

2. Who finds Agnes while she is on her way to the forest to give birth in Chapter 116?

3. What sign tells Agnes Judith is still alive in Chapter 17?

4. How old is Susanna about to be at the start of Chapter 14?

5. What does Mary tell Agnes she must do to her son after he is born because she did it to her sons and they all grew to be strong?

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