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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 is Mary certain of at the start of Chapter 13 based on her own life experience?
2. What word does Agnes repeat while laboring in Chapter 10?
3. What expensive item does Agnes’s husband give to her on his visit in Part II?
4. Who helps Judith’s father get a horse to go to Stratford after he receives the letter of her ailing health?
5. What does Hamnet’s body lie on top of at the start of Part II?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Agnes’s husband propose he will do since she cannot move the family to London?
2. What does Hamnet think he can do in regards to letting Judith live, and how does he attempt to do this?
3. What is Agnes surprised to discover her labor in her second pregnancy?
4. What is Mary arguing with her son about at the start of Chapter 14, which the nearly two-year-old Susanna watches?
5. Why is it not possible for Agnes and her family to move to London after the twins were born?
6. What is the first event in Chapter 11 that had to happen in order for the pestilence to get to Judith in 1596?
7. Why does Agnes leave her apartment early in the morning at the start of Chapter 10?
8. What is Agnes’s reaction when her brother shows her the house he helped her husband purchase in Stratford?
9. What is the second event in Chapter 11 that had to happen in order for the pestilence to get to Judith in 1596?
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 analyzing some of the imagery used in Hamnet. Try to find examples that involve each of the five senses. How does the author’s use of imagery impact the reader?
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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