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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 Mary tell Agnes she must do to her son after he is born because she did it to her sons and they all grew to be strong?
(a) Rock him.
(b) Nurse him.
(c) Sing to him.
(d) Swaddle him.

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

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

4. What sign tells Agnes Judith is still alive in Chapter 17?
(a) She feels her heart beat.
(b) She moves slightly.
(c) She is breathing.
(d) Her hand is warm.

5. Why does Agnes’s husband worry about leaving London even after the roads are clear?
(a) He has a fear of traveling.
(b) He worries he cannot afford it.
(c) He does not wish to acknowledge Hamnet has died.
(d) He worries he will lose his place as a playwright.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Agnes’s husband say has enjoyed his newest play when he writes them in Part II?

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

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

4. What does Agnes notice about Hamnet when she wakes in Chapter 17?

5. How old is Susanna about to be at the start of Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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