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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 does Joan tell Agnes when Agnes tells her she wants to marry the Latin tutor?
(a) That she can do what she wants.
(b) That she will be banished from Hewlands.
(c) That she will not allow it.
(d) That Bartholomew will not let her.

2. Agnes vows she will leave Hewlands when she finds this, which she got from her mother.
(a) Someone who can see into the future.
(b) The other half of a locket.
(c) An herb garden.
(d) Unconditional love.

3. What about Agnes’s pregnancy excites the tutor most?
(a) He has always wanted a son.
(b) He can finally move out.
(c) Nobody will be able to object to their marriage.
(d) He will not get her dowry.

4. How many living children did Agnes’s birth mother give birth to?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

5. Who is the person who gestures to the Latin tutor to go to the parlor after Eliza had told him to go home?
(a) Ned.
(b) Edmond.
(c) Mary.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hamnet notice on Judith’s neck after he returns to her chamber in Chapter 1?

2. What flowers on her wedding crown does Eliza tell Agnes will match her dress?

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

4. With what object would Agnes’s stepmother hit her?

5. Which of her husband’s relatives does Agnes foresee dying after having many children?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Agnes doing at Hewlands while Hamnet searches for help for his sister?

3. What does Joan say about the Latin tutor’s father when she finds he and Agnes walking hand-in-hand?

4. How does the Latin tutor’s father treat his children, in particular his oldest son?

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

6. What does Eliza offer to do for Agnes’s wedding and how does Agnes respond?

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

8. Who is Hamnet looking for at the start of the novel and why?

9. Who taughter Eliza and her sister Anne to read and how?

10. What did Agnes predict when she was eight, as described in Chapter 2?

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