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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. Why does Agnes go outside in the middle of the night in Part II?
2. What do the coworker of the artisan use to cushion the glass beads before shipping them off?
3. Why does Agnes’s husband worry about leaving London even after the roads are clear?
4. What are Mary and her son fighting about at the start of Chapter 14?
5. What do the ship men do with the cats after they die on the cabin boy’s ship in Chapter 11?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Eliza write to her brother regarding Judith in Chapter 13?
2. Why is there a bit of a rush to bury Hamnet after his death?
3. Why does Hamnet’s father worry about staying away from London for too long after his son’s funeral?
4. What do Susanna and Judith force Agnes to do while she is sitting with Hamnet’s pebble collection?
5. What does Agnes begin to notice about her husband in Chapter 12 and what does she say when she speaks to him about it?
6. Why does Agnes leave her apartment early in the morning at the start of Chapter 10?
7. What does Agnes make Mary promise when she feels she is going to die after delivering her twins?
8. What does Agnes’s husband propose he will do since she cannot move the family to London?
9. What is Mary arguing with her son about at the start of Chapter 14, which the nearly two-year-old Susanna watches?
10. Why is it not possible for Agnes and her family to move to London after the twins were born?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the narrative structure of Hamnet. What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the novel to support your analysis.
Essay Topic 2
In Hamnet, the author never mentions Agnes’s husband’s name, though it is known that it is William Shakespeare. Analyze the author’s choice to omit his name from 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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