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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 Eliza and Anne’s brother teach them how to read?

2. Who lives in the apartment with Hamnet?

3. Who built the apartment in which Hamnet and his family live?

4. Which young character is sick at the start of Hamnet?

5. What has the tutor heard of the eldest daughter at Hewlands?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Hamnet said to behave at school in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

5. What does the physician’s wife ask Hamnet when he goes to her house searching for her husband, and how does she react?

6. How does Joan react to Agnes’s pregnancy in Chapter 4, and how does Bartholomew respond?

7. Why does the priest place a linen over Agnes and her husband at the wedding?

8. Where does Agnes sleep until the wedding?

9. What is the story people tell of Agnes’s mother as described in Chapter 2?

10. How does Joan discover one of the girls of the house must be pregnant in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay comparing and contrasting the families of Agnes and her husband. How do these differences play out in the storyline?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Agnes’s relationship with her husband. Use examples from the text to show how their relationship develops over time and how it represents the themes of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing the narrative structure of Hamnet. What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the novel to support your analysis.

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