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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. Which character does Hamnet’s father tell him to stay clear of when he was in “one of his black humors”?

2. Who is the Latin tutor shocked to see in the parlor after Eliza had told him to go home in Chapter 4?

3. What color is Agnes’s wedding dress?

4. What character is staring out the window of Hewlands at the start of Chapter 2?

5. For what was John fined and ultimately shunned from the community?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Agnes finally see Hamnet in Chapter 5?

3. What did Agnes predict when she was eight, as described in Chapter 2?

4. How do people describe Agnes, the eldest daughter at Hewlands?

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

6. Where does Agnes sleep until the wedding?

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

8. What does Eliza offer to do for Agnes’s wedding and how does Agnes respond?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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 gender roles in Hamnet. How are they apparent in the story, and in what ways are these roles the same or different today? Use specific examples from the text to support your argument.

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