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

2. What expensive item does Agnes’s husband give to her on his visit in Part II?
(a) A bracelet.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A new dress.
(d) A ring.

3. Who does Agnes’s husband say has enjoyed his newest play when he writes them in Part II?
(a) The Prince.
(b) The King.
(c) The princess.
(d) The Queen.

4. What objects of Hamnet’s is Agnes sitting with when her daughters get her to gather rosehips?
(a) His letters.
(b) His coin collection.
(c) His pebble collection.
(d) His clothing.

5. After Agnes has the twins, why does it become unlikely the family will join their father in London?
(a) Susanna is in poor health.
(b) Judith is in poor health.
(c) They cannot afford a home for them all.
(d) Agnes comes to like Henley Street.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What town has Judith’s father gone to at the start of Chapter 15?

5. Where does the cabin boy encounter a man with two amputated fingers in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What plan does Bartholomew come up with in Chapter 12 after Agnes tells of her husband’s changed mood?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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