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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 street does Agnes and her family live on with her husband’s family?
(a) Howland Street.
(b) Hewlands Street.
(c) Harley Street.
(d) Henley Street.

2. What has the tutor heard of the eldest daughter at Hewlands?
(a) She is wealthy.
(b) She might be a witch.
(c) She is beautiful.
(d) She is well educated.

3. For what was John fined and ultimately shunned from the community?
(a) Public drunkenness.
(b) Not attending church.
(c) Making counterfeit goods.
(d) Stealing.

4. Who agrees to marry Agnes and the tutor in their small wedding?
(a) A priest from London.
(b) The priest of the church her husband’s family goes to.
(c) Agnes’s uncle.
(d) The priest who had given Agnes the falcon.

5. Where was it rumored that Agnes’s mother had come from before being taken in by the farmer?
(a) The city.
(b) The streets.
(c) The forest.
(d) An orphanage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eliza’s brother describe Agnes to her?

2. What animals were Hamnet and his sister playing with when she first complained of a headache?

3. Why does John hurl himself at Edmond at dinner one night in Chapter 8?

4. Who does the tutor believe the girl he spotted from the window in Chapter 2 must be?

5. Which character does Hamnet’s father tell him to stay clear of when he was in “one of his black humors”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Susanna feel about her mother, according to the description in Chapter 3?

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

3. Why does the priest place a linen over Agnes and her husband at the wedding?

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

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

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

7. How does Joan react to Agnes’s pregnancy in Chapter 4, and how does Bartholomew respond?

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

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

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

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