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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. Which character does Hamnet’s father tell him to stay clear of when he was in “one of his black humors”?
(a) The innkeeper.
(b) His uncle.
(c) The apprentice.
(d) His grandfather.

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

3. What does Hamnet’s grandmother tell him he looks like when he goes to get her at the cookhouse per his mother’s instructions in Chapter 7?
(a) A rat.
(b) A man.
(c) A girl.
(d) A ghost.

4. How old was Mary’s daughter when she died of the pestilence years earlier?
(a) 12.
(b) 11.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

5. While Judith is in bed hallucinating, why is the maid taking so long to buy the milk?
(a) She stopped at the tavern.
(b) She got lost.
(c) She is visiting a sick friend.
(d) She is flirting with the dairyman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Agnes when she predicted that death of a visitor?

3. Who lives in the apartment with Hamnet?

4. Why did John see Agnes’s pregnancy was a good thing for him?

5. Where is Hamnet's mother when he is searching for help with Judith?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Ned?

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

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

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

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

6. How do Agnes and Mary work together in Chapter 7 when they discover Judith is sick?

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

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

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

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

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