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

2. What does Judith tell Agnes when she finds her making Hamnet's shroud in Part II?
(a) That she refuses to live without him.
(b) That she hates her father for not being there.
(c) That his death was her fault.
(d) That it is Agnes’s fault for not being home.

3. Why does Agnes’s husband say he will not be able to come home until after winter?
(a) He hates leaving in the cold.
(b) The roads are too bad.
(c) He has been sick.
(d) He has too much work.

4. With whom does Agnes speak briefly at the market in Chapter 10?
(a) The maid.
(b) The dairyman.
(c) The butcher.
(d) The baker’s wife.

5. Who is the person who is certain where Agnes has gone to give birth in chapter 10?
(a) Mary.
(b) Agnes’s husband.
(c) Bartholomew.
(d) Joan.

Short Answer Questions

1. While in labor in Chapter 16, Agnes thinks of a letter from her husband describing what in great detail?

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

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

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

5. Where does Agnes’s husband begin working after he stops selling gloves in London?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 is Agnes surprised to discover her labor in her second pregnancy?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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