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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. Why does the priest place a linen on the bride and bridegroom at the wedding in Chapter 6?
(a) To unite them as one.
(b) So nobody can see Agnes is pregnant.
(c) So nobody can see them kiss.
(d) To protect them from evil.

2. What did the Latin tutor begin to do on the days he did not have to tutor?
(a) Help his father in the workshop.
(b) Work the farm at Hewlands.
(c) Lie in bed.
(d) Go to the tavern.

3. Where does Agnes feel she falls in the hierarchy of her husband’s family when they first move in?
(a) Between the maid and the apprentice.
(b) Between the apprentice and hen.
(c) Between the pigs and the maid.
(d) Between the sons and daughter.

4. What do people often ask Susanna about which irritates her?
(a) Her siblings behavior.
(b) Her father’s life in London.
(c) Her mother’s abilities.
(d) Her grandfather’s glove business.

5. What is in the parcel the doctor gives them to tie around Judith’s stomach?
(a) Dried toad.
(b) Dried rosemary.
(c) Goose eggs.
(d) Chicken feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of bird does Agnes have when he first sees her outside Hewlands?

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

3. Why does Agnes wake before dawn when she moves into the apartment after the wedding?

4. Who built the apartment in which Hamnet and his family live?

5. What does Hamnet ask his mother about Judith when she sees her upstairs for the first time in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Agnes feel her husband behaves when around his family?

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

3. Where does Agnes sleep until the wedding?

4. Describe Hamnet’s encounter with his drunk grandfather in Chapter 1 when he is searching for help with his sister.

5. What is the story people tell of Agnes’s mother as described in Chapter 2?

6. Who catches the tutor’s eye while he peers outside the window of Hewlands, and how does he feel about her?

7. Why does the Latin tutor’s father receive the news of Agnes’s pregnancy much calmer than his mother?

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

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

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

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