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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Hamnet see in his dream when he is ill in Chapter 17?
(a) Snow.
(b) A rowan tree.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His father.

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

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

5. Which family member is described as being “furious with the world” (236) after Hamnet’s death?
(a) Susanna.
(b) Hamnet’s father.
(c) Edmond.
(d) Judith.

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

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

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

9. What expensive item does Agnes’s husband give to her on his visit in Part II?
(a) A ring.
(b) A new dress.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A necklace.

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

12. What Shakespearen play is quoted at the beginning of Part II of Hamnet?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Hamlet.

13. What is the name of the market Agnes stops at in the start of Chapter 10?
(a) Stratford.
(b) Henley.
(c) Richard.
(d) Rother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Mary and her son fighting about at the start of Chapter 14?

2. With whom does Agnes speak briefly at the market in Chapter 10?

3. What is Judith doing when she sees her father walking down Henley Street in Part II?

4. What did the women do to the bedding after Hamnet died?

5. Where does Agnes go to birth her child in Chapter 10?

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