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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. After the animal climbs on the boy, what does his owner try to demand from the cabin boy?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Food.
(c) To take the animal.
(d) Money.

2. What is the first moment Agnes cries after Hamnet’s death?
(a) When Mary comes to help her.
(b) When Judith asks if he will ever come back.
(c) When she is first alone with his body.
(d) When her husband comes home.

3. What does Mary help Agnes do at night after everyone has left after Hamnet died?
(a) Make the shroud.
(b) Pick flowers.
(c) Clean his body.
(d) Write to her husband.

4. Who is the person who is certain where Agnes has gone to give birth in chapter 10?
(a) Agnes’s husband.
(b) Joan.
(c) Mary.
(d) Bartholomew.

5. Which family member is described as being “furious with the world” (236) after Hamnet’s death?
(a) Hamnet’s father.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Edmond.
(d) Judith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Agnes’s husband tell her he is going to by land to bring in “good rent” at the end of Chapter 16?

2. What does Agnes make Mary promise her when Agnes thinks she is going to die after giving birth to twins?

3. With whom does Agnes speak briefly at the market in Chapter 10?

4. What word does Agnes repeat while laboring in Chapter 10?

5. The first event described in Chapter 11 that leads to Judith getting pestilence involves what artisan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Agnes begin to notice about her husband in Chapter 12 and what does she say when she speaks to him about it?

2. How does Bartholomew know where his sister has gone when her husband and family cannot find her in Chapter 10?

3. What does Agnes’s husband propose he will do since she cannot move the family to London?

4. What is Mary arguing with her son about at the start of Chapter 14, which the nearly two-year-old Susanna watches?

5. What does Mary feel regarding Judith’s illness at the start of Chapter 13?

6. What is Agnes’s reaction when her brother shows her the house he helped her husband purchase in Stratford?

7. How do Hamnet and Judith change places in Chapter 17, and what happens to Hamnet at the end?

8. What is Agnes surprised to discover her labor in her second pregnancy?

9. What visions does Agnes have regarding her husband’s life in London on his first visit after their son’s funeral when he gives her a bracelet?

10. How does Judith end up encountering the boxes with the flea-ridden rags?

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