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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 member of Agnes’s family ends up handling the box of glass beads and rags from Murano?
2. What town has Judith’s father gone to at the start of Chapter 15?
3. Who carries Hamnet’s body to the burial site?
4. What expensive item does Agnes’s husband give to her on his visit in Part II?
5. Who is the person who is certain where Agnes has gone to give birth in chapter 10?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Judith end up encountering the boxes with the flea-ridden rags?
2. What moment sets Agnes in tears while she is sewing her son’s burial shroud?
3. Why is there a bit of a rush to bury Hamnet after his death?
4. How do Hamnet and Judith change places in Chapter 17, and what happens to Hamnet at the end?
5. How does the letter finally reach Judith’s father in Chapter 15?
6. What is Agnes’s reaction when her brother shows her the house he helped her husband purchase in Stratford?
7. What plan does Bartholomew come up with in Chapter 12 after Agnes tells of her husband’s changed mood?
8. What is the second event in Chapter 11 that had to happen in order for the pestilence to get to Judith in 1596?
9. What does Agnes begin to notice about her husband in Chapter 12 and what does she say when she speaks to him about it?
10. What is Mary arguing with her son about at the start of Chapter 14, which the nearly two-year-old Susanna watches?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay describing the author’s narrative tone and writing style. Use examples from the text as evidence for your argument.
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 analyzing Hamnet’s commentary on the marriage during the time the novel takes place.
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