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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 protect them from evil.
(b) So nobody can see them kiss.
(c) To unite them as one.
(d) So nobody can see Agnes is pregnant.

2. Who was Hewlands left to after Agnes’s father died?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Bartholomew.
(c) Joan.
(d) The priest.

3. Whose money does John, a once prosperous man, rely on in Chapter 1?
(a) His wife.
(b) His father.
(c) His son.
(d) His daughter-in-law.

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

5. What physical trait of Agnes’s stepmother was it rumored had something to to with Agnes?
(a) The cut on her lip.
(b) Her limp.
(c) The boils on her face.
(d) The rash on her hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joan say about the Latin tutor’s father when she sees him holding hands with Agnes in Chapter 4?

2. What was the name of Eliza and her brother’s older sibling who died?

3. How many living children did Agnes’s birth mother give birth to?

4. How did Eliza and Anne’s brother teach them how to read?

5. Who enters at the end of Chapter 3 and commands Susanna help with dinner?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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. What is the Latin Tutor doing at Hewlands in Chapter 2 and why?

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

8. How does Agnes finally see Hamnet in Chapter 5?

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

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

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