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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animals were Hamnet and his sister playing with when she first complained of a headache?
(a) Squirrels.
(b) Kittens.
(c) Birds.
(d) Puppies.

2. What happens at her wedding after Agnes silently asks her mother to show her presence?
(a) A clap of thunder is heard.
(b) Snow begins to fall.
(c) Rowan berries fall from the tree.
(d) A bird lands on her shoulder.

3. How old was Mary’s daughter when she died of the pestilence years earlier?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

4. With what object would Agnes’s stepmother hit her?
(a) A shoe.
(b) A broom.
(c) A cup.
(d) A wooden spoon.

5. While Judith is in bed hallucinating, why is the maid taking so long to buy the milk?
(a) She stopped at the tavern.
(b) She got lost.
(c) She is visiting a sick friend.
(d) She is flirting with the dairyman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John ask his son when they were alone after Agnes’s pregnancy was revealed?

2. What did Eliza and her brother find in the attic which upset their father?

3. What color is Agnes’s wedding dress?

4. Whose money does John, a once prosperous man, rely on in Chapter 1?

5. What did the Latin tutor begin to do on the days he did not have to tutor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joan discover one of the girls of the house must be pregnant in Chapter 4?

2. What does Agnes do to people’s hands, and what does she think she can learn by doing this?

3. How does the Latin tutor feel about tutoring after meeting Agnes, and how does he begin to behave at home?

4. What are Judith’s symptoms in Chapter 1 and when did they begin?

5. What does the physician’s wife ask Hamnet when he goes to her house searching for her husband, and how does she react?

6. How do Agnes and Mary work together in Chapter 7 when they discover Judith is sick?

7. In what way has Hamnet’s grandfather become “disgraced” (22)?

8. How is Hamnet said to behave at school in Chapter 1?

9. How do people describe Agnes, the eldest daughter at Hewlands?

10. Who is the first person with whom the Latin tutor discusses his relationship with Agnes?

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