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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What flowers on her wedding crown does Eliza tell Agnes will match her dress?

2. Which character is drunk and spills ale on his paperwork in Chapter 1?

3. Where was it rumored that Agnes’s mother had come from before being taken in by the farmer?

4. Why does the doctor refuse to come in the house when Judith is sick in Chapter 9?

5. Who does Eliza’s brother tell her gave Agnes the kestrel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Ned?

2. What does Joan say about the Latin tutor’s father when she finds he and Agnes walking hand-in-hand?

3. What is Agnes doing at Hewlands while Hamnet searches for help for his sister?

4. What are Judith’s symptoms in Chapter 1 and when did they begin?

5. In what ways does Agnes feel her family is different from her husband's after they move in together?

6. Why does the Latin tutor’s father receive the news of Agnes’s pregnancy much calmer than his mother?

7. What does Susanna feel about her mother, according to the description in Chapter 3?

8. Who is Hamnet looking for at the start of the novel and why?

9. Who taughter Eliza and her sister Anne to read and how?

10. What agreement was struck between Bartholomew and Joan regarding Hewlands after the father died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing the changes Susanna and Judith experience after their brother’s death. What role does each girl take on and why?

Essay Topic 2

Agnes experiences personal changes throughout the novel. In what ways does Agnes change and in what ways does she remain the same? How do these changes develop the themes of Hamnet?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring the conflict between the city life and farm life in Hamnet. Use direct examples from the text to support your viewpoint.

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