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

2. Who helps Agnes’s husband broker a deal for a new home for Agnes and her children?
(a) Gilbert.
(b) Bartholomew.
(c) Edmond.
(d) John.

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

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 hears feet outside her window.
(c) She is sleepwalking.
(d) She hears her son’s cry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What insect comes between Agnes’s brother and husband allowing her husband to free himself from Bartholomew’s grasp in Chapter 10?

2. What word does Agnes repeat while laboring in Chapter 10?

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

4. What does Hamnet do when he pulls the covers over his and his sister’s head in Chapter 13?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is it not possible for Agnes and her family to move to London after the twins were born?

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

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

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

8. Why does Hamnet’s father worry about staying away from London for too long after his son’s funeral?

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

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

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