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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 year is it at the start of Chapter 10?
2. Where does Agnes go to birth her child in Chapter 10?
3. Where does Agnes’s husband begin working after he stops selling gloves in London?
4. How old is Susanna about to be at the start of Chapter 14?
5. What happens to Hamnet at the very end of Chapter 17?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Bartholomew know where his sister has gone when her husband and family cannot find her in Chapter 10?
2. What moment sets Agnes in tears while she is sewing her son’s burial shroud?
3. Why does Agnes leave her apartment early in the morning at the start of Chapter 10?
4. Why is it not possible for Agnes and her family to move to London after the twins were born?
5. What does Hamnet think he can do in regards to letting Judith live, and how does he attempt to do this?
6. What do Susanna and Judith force Agnes to do while she is sitting with Hamnet’s pebble collection?
7. What plan does Bartholomew come up with in Chapter 12 after Agnes tells of her husband’s changed mood?
8. What does Eliza write to her brother regarding Judith in Chapter 13?
9. What is Agnes’s reaction when her brother shows her the house he helped her husband purchase in Stratford?
10. How do Hamnet and Judith change places in Chapter 17, and what happens to Hamnet at the end?
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 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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