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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. Where does Bartholomew suggest Agnes’s husband go for work after she tells her brother of his mood?
(a) The guildhall.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Hewlands.
(d) London.

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

3. What does Agnes suspect her husband has been doing in London when he first visits after Hamnet’s funeral?
(a) Drinking too much.
(b) Seeing other women.
(c) Working too hard.
(d) Not working at all.

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

5. Which family member is said to cry constantly after Hamnet’s death in Part II?
(a) Edmond.
(b) Judith.
(c) Mary.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Agnes’s husband confess to her at the start of Chapter 12 after she says he looks ill?

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

3. What is the first moment Agnes cries after Hamnet’s death?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do Susanna and Judith force Agnes to do while she is sitting with Hamnet’s pebble collection?

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

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

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

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

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

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