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

2. Where does Agnes go to birth her child in Chapter 10?
(a) Her chamber.
(b) The forest near Hewlands.
(c) Her mother-in-law’s chamber.
(d) The midwife’s home.

3. What does Agnes’s husband confess to her at the start of Chapter 12 after she says he looks ill?
(a) He has a drinking problem.
(b) He has insomnia.
(c) He is depressed.
(d) He is having an affair.

4. What town has Judith’s father gone to at the start of Chapter 15?
(a) Stokenchurch.
(b) Murano.
(c) Kent.
(d) London.

5. What word does Agnes repeat while laboring in Chapter 10?
(a) Kestrel.
(b) Forest.
(c) Rowan.
(d) Susanna.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is it at the start of Chapter 10?

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

3. What sign tells Agnes Judith is still alive in Chapter 17?

4. What do the ship men do with the cats after they die on the cabin boy’s ship in Chapter 11?

5. What does Hamnet see in his dream when he is ill in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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