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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. How did Mary react when her son told her that he was the father of Agnes’s baby?
2. What does Eliza offer to do for Agnes at the start of Chapter 6?
3. Where was it rumored that Agnes’s mother had come from before being taken in by the farmer?
4. What physical trait of Agnes’s stepmother was it rumored had something to to with Agnes?
5. Which characters worked out the marriage plan between Agnes and the tutor?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way has Hamnet’s grandfather become “disgraced” (22)?
2. What agreement was struck between Bartholomew and Joan regarding Hewlands after the father died?
3. What is the Latin Tutor doing at Hewlands in Chapter 2 and why?
4. What does Agnes do to people’s hands, and what does she think she can learn by doing this?
5. Why does the priest place a linen over Agnes and her husband at the wedding?
6. What did Agnes predict when she was eight, as described in Chapter 2?
7. What sign of Agnes’s mother appears to her at the wedding?
8. What does the physician’s wife ask Hamnet when he goes to her house searching for her husband, and how does she react?
9. What does Eliza offer to do for Agnes’s wedding and how does Agnes respond?
10. How do Agnes and Mary work together in Chapter 7 when they discover Judith is sick?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the symbolic significance of rowan berries in Hamnet. Use examples from the text to support your argument.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay discussing your emotional reaction to the scene when Agnes prepares her son’s body for burial. What mood was the author striving for in this scene and was she successful?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing Hamnet’s commentary on the marriage during the time the novel takes place.
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