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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 Shakespearen play is quoted at the beginning of Part II of Hamnet?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Macbeth.

2. Who is sent to Hewlands to look for Agnes in Chapter 10 while she is in labor?
(a) Ned.
(b) Edmond.
(c) John.
(d) Eliza.

3. Who carries Agnes away after she has given birth to Susanna?
(a) John.
(b) Bartholomew.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Thomas.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Agnes that they will see to the funeral arrangements in Part II?

2. Who helps Judith’s father get a horse to go to Stratford after he receives the letter of her ailing health?

3. Why does Agnes’s husband worry about leaving London even after the roads are clear?

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

5. Which family member is described as being “furious with the world” (236) after Hamnet’s death?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What visions does Agnes have regarding her husband’s life in London on his first visit after their son’s funeral when he gives her a bracelet?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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