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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 has excited the Latin tutor about teaching Latin in Chapter 4?
2. Who entered Hewlands and stopped Joan from hitting Agnes when she discovered she was pregnant?
3. How old was Mary’s daughter when she died of the pestilence years earlier?
4. How does Eliza’s brother describe Agnes to her?
5. How did Mary react when her son told her that he was the father of Agnes’s baby?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Joan react to Agnes’s pregnancy in Chapter 4, and how does Bartholomew respond?
2. Describe Hamnet’s encounter with his drunk grandfather in Chapter 1 when he is searching for help with his sister.
3. What agreement was struck between Bartholomew and Joan regarding Hewlands after the father died?
4. Why does the Latin tutor’s father receive the news of Agnes’s pregnancy much calmer than his mother?
5. What does Agnes do to people’s hands, and what does she think she can learn by doing this?
6. How does the Latin tutor feel about tutoring after meeting Agnes, and how does he begin to behave at home?
7. How do people describe Agnes, the eldest daughter at Hewlands?
8. Who is the first person with whom the Latin tutor discusses his relationship with Agnes?
9. Who is Hamnet looking for at the start of the novel and why?
10. What does the physician’s wife ask Hamnet when he goes to her house searching for her husband, and how does she react?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing the ending of Hamnet. How do you think this ending ties the story together and reflects the themes of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay comparing the house on Henley street to the life the husband leads in London. In what ways is he stifled in Henley street and how is his life in London in comparison?
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