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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 has excited the Latin tutor about teaching Latin in Chapter 4?
(a) The boys have been making excellent progress.
(b) He got a raise.
(c) Meeting Agnes.
(d) The debt is nearly paid off.

2. Who is described as being in a joyful mood on the day of the wedding?
(a) Joan.
(b) John.
(c) The bridegroom.
(d) Mary.

3. How old was Agnes when she predicted that death of a visitor?
(a) 10.
(b) 18.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

4. How many years before Judith’s illness does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

5. What name does Joan call Agnes when she discovered she was pregnant?
(a) Trollop.
(b) Prostitute.
(c) Whore.
(d) Fustylugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Agnes go after dropping honey and herbs off at home without realizing Hamnet and Judith are upstairs?

2. Where was it rumored that Agnes’s mother had come from before being taken in by the farmer?

3. What is in the parcel the doctor gives them to tie around Judith’s stomach?

4. What did John ask his son when they were alone after Agnes’s pregnancy was revealed?

5. When does the father tell them he will come home from London?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the Latin tutor feel about tutoring after meeting Agnes, and how does he begin to behave at home?

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

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

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

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

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

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