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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 is Mary certain of at the start of Chapter 13 based on her own life experience?
(a) Agnes will get the pestilence.
(b) Judith will die.
(c) Judith will live.
(d) Agnes will have many more children.

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

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

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

5. What does Mary help Agnes do at night after everyone has left after Hamnet died?
(a) Make the shroud.
(b) Write to her husband.
(c) Clean his body.
(d) Pick flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Agnes’s husband worry about leaving London even after the roads are clear?

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

3. Who tells Agnes that they will see to the funeral arrangements in Part II?

4. Why is the cabin boy ordered to leave the ship in Chapter 11?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Agnes’s reaction when her brother shows her the house he helped her husband purchase in Stratford?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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