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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 insect comes between Agnes’s brother and husband allowing her husband to free himself from Bartholomew’s grasp in Chapter 10?
(a) A mosquito.
(b) A flea.
(c) A bee.
(d) A butterfly.

2. Why is the cabin boy ordered to leave the ship in Chapter 11?
(a) To find new crewmembers.
(b) Because he was drunk.
(c) To deliver a package.
(d) To get food for his mates.

3. What is Judith doing when she sees her father walking down Henley Street in Part II?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Playing with Edmond’s dog.
(c) Washing clothes.
(d) Playing with kitten.

4. Who carries Agnes away after she has given birth to Susanna?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Bartholomew.
(c) Her husband.
(d) John.

5. What member of Agnes’s family ends up handling the box of glass beads and rags from Murano?
(a) Hamnet.
(b) Bartholomew.
(c) Judith.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the market Agnes stops at in the start of Chapter 10?

2. Who carries Hamnet’s body to the burial site?

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

4. Why does Judith think her father does not come to visit after Hamnet’s death?

5. What did the women do to the bedding after Hamnet died?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What moment sets Agnes in tears while she is sewing her son’s burial shroud?

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

4. Why is there a bit of a rush to bury Hamnet after his death?

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

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

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

8. What does Hamnet think he can do in regards to letting Judith live, and how does he attempt to do this?

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

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