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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 was a deal made for the glover’s son to go to Hewlands twice a week?
(a) To entice the eldest daughter to marry him.
(b) To pay off a debt.
(c) To earn his own money.
(d) To teach him responsibility.

2. Whose initial calmness in regards to Agnes’s pregnancy surprised the tutor in Chapter 4?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Mary.
(c) Agnes.
(d) John.

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

4. What type of bird does Agnes have when he first sees her outside Hewlands?
(a) A pigeon.
(b) A chicken.
(c) A kestrel.
(d) A dove.

5. Which child writes the responses to their father’s letters because Agnes does not write well?
(a) Judith.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Edmond.
(d) Hamnet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what part of Hewlands do Agnes and the tutor first kiss in Chapter 2?

2. What has the tutor heard of the eldest daughter at Hewlands?

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

4. What name does Joan call Agnes when she discovered she was pregnant?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who is Ned?

9. What does Joan say about the Latin tutor’s father when she finds he and Agnes walking hand-in-hand?

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

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