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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 Agnes make Mary promise her when Agnes thinks she is going to die after giving birth to twins?
(a) Send her children to London.
(b) Make her son move back to Henley Street.
(c) Make sure Joan does not raise her children.
(d) Give the children to Bartholomew.

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

3. Who carries Hamnet’s body to the burial site?
(a) Hamnet’s father and uncle Edmond.
(b) Hamnet’s father and Bartholomew.
(c) Hamnet’s father and grandfather.
(d) Bartholomew and Edmond.

4. What happens when the glass maker returns to Murano after the cabin boy helped him with his boxes?
(a) He gets married.
(b) So many coworkers fall ill they have to stop production.
(c) He dies.
(d) Work is so backed up he cannot rest.

5. Why does Agnes go outside in the middle of the night in Part II?
(a) She hears her son’s cry.
(b) She is sleepwalking.
(c) She hears feet outside her window.
(d) She thinks her husband has come home.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the coworker of the artisan use to cushion the glass beads before shipping them off?

3. After the animal climbs on the boy, what does his owner try to demand from the cabin boy?

4. What Shakespearen play is quoted at the beginning of Part II of Hamnet?

5. Who finds Agnes while she is on her way to the forest to give birth in Chapter 116?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bartholomew know where his sister has gone when her husband and family cannot find her in Chapter 10?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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