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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 does Judith make to keep the lock of Hamnet’s hair his mother had cut off?
(a) A leather pouch.
(b) A silk pouch.
(c) A glass bowl.
(d) A wooden box.

2. Where does Agnes’s husband begin working after he stops selling gloves in London?
(a) A tavern.
(b) An inn.
(c) A glassmaker’s shop.
(d) Playhouses.

3. What year is it at the start of Chapter 10?
(a) 1683.
(b) 1583.
(c) 1483.
(d) 1603.

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

5. What happens to the artisan’s fingers after the disastrous event in his workplace?
(a) They are stuck together.
(b) They turn black.
(c) They cannot move.
(d) They have to be amputated.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Hamnet see in his dream when he is ill in Chapter 17?

4. What does Agnes suspect her husband has been doing in London when he first visits after Hamnet’s funeral?

5. What sign tells Agnes Judith is still alive in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does Eliza write to her brother regarding Judith in Chapter 13?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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