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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 was the first indication to Joan that one of the girls might be pregnant?
(a) They seemed to be eating more.
(b) She heard someone throwing up.
(c) There were fewer monthlies to wash.
(d) Her daughter’s dress appeared snug.

2. What did Eliza and her brother find in the attic which upset their father?
(a) Old love letters.
(b) Boxes of unsold gloves.
(c) Money.
(d) Wool bales.

3. Who does the tutor believe the girl he spotted from the window in Chapter 2 must be?
(a) A cousin.
(b) A niece.
(c) A stranger.
(d) A servant.

4. How did Mary react when her son told her that he was the father of Agnes’s baby?
(a) She stormed out of the parlor.
(b) She hugged Agnes.
(c) She beat him with her fists.
(d) She got on her knees and prayed.

5. What does Bartholomew explain to Joan that she does not have the right to decide when they find out Agnes is pregnant?
(a) Where the wedding will be held.
(b) If Agnes can stay in the house.
(c) Where the baby will be born.
(d) Whether or not Agnes can marry the tutor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Agnes feel she falls in the hierarchy of her husband’s family when they first move in?

3. Where was John heading when Hamnet passed him on the way to the physician’s house?

4. For what was John fined and ultimately shunned from the community?

5. Why does the doctor who comes to see Judith in Chapter 9 dislike Agnes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Ned?

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

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

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

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

9. In what ways does Agnes feel her family is different from her husband's after they move in together?

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

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