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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. Who finds Agnes while she is on her way to the forest to give birth in Chapter 116?
(a) Gilbert.
(b) John.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Mary.

2. Why does Judith think her father does not come to visit after Hamnet’s death?
(a) Because she looks so much like Hamnet.
(b) Because he is working so much to not think of his dead son.
(c) Because he has another family in London.
(d) Because he does not want to see his room.

3. What word does Agnes repeat while laboring in Chapter 10?
(a) Kestrel.
(b) Forest.
(c) Susanna.
(d) Rowan.

4. Why does Agnes go outside in the middle of the night in Part II?
(a) She is sleepwalking.
(b) She thinks her husband has come home.
(c) She hears feet outside her window.
(d) She hears her son’s cry.

5. Where does the cabin boy encounter a man with two amputated fingers in Chapter 11?
(a) Venice.
(b) Ragusa.
(c) Murano.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects of Hamnet’s is Agnes sitting with when her daughters get her to gather rosehips?

2. After Agnes has the twins, why does it become unlikely the family will join their father in London?

3. Why does Agnes’s husband say he will not be able to come home until after winter?

4. What does Mary help Agnes do at night after everyone has left after Hamnet died?

5. Who helps Judith’s father get a horse to go to Stratford after he receives the letter of her ailing health?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan does Bartholomew come up with in Chapter 12 after Agnes tells of her husband’s changed mood?

2. Why does Agnes leave her apartment early in the morning at the start of Chapter 10?

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

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

5. How does the letter finally reach Judith’s father in Chapter 15?

6. What signifies to Agnes that she is pregnant again in Chapter 12, and what meaning does this have?

7. What does Agnes make Mary promise when she feels she is going to die after delivering her twins?

8. Why does Hamnet’s father worry about staying away from London for too long after his son’s funeral?

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

10. What is the second event in Chapter 11 that had to happen in order for the pestilence to get to Judith in 1596?

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