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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. Who is the person who is certain where Agnes has gone to give birth in chapter 10?
2. What do the ship men do with the cats after they die on the cabin boy’s ship in Chapter 11?
3. What Shakespearen play is quoted at the beginning of Part II of Hamnet?
4. What do the coworker of the artisan use to cushion the glass beads before shipping them off?
5. Where does the cabin boy encounter a man with two amputated fingers in Chapter 11?
Short Essay Questions
1. What plan does Bartholomew come up with in Chapter 12 after Agnes tells of her husband’s changed mood?
2. Why does Agnes leave her apartment early in the morning at the start of Chapter 10?
3. What do Susanna and Judith force Agnes to do while she is sitting with Hamnet’s pebble collection?
4. What visions does Agnes have regarding her husband’s life in London on his first visit after their son’s funeral when he gives her a bracelet?
5. How do Hamnet and Judith change places in Chapter 17, and what happens to Hamnet at the end?
6. What is Mary arguing with her son about at the start of Chapter 14, which the nearly two-year-old Susanna watches?
7. What is the first event in Chapter 11 that had to happen in order for the pestilence to get to Judith in 1596?
8. What does Agnes make Mary promise when she feels she is going to die after delivering her twins?
9. Why is there a bit of a rush to bury Hamnet after his death?
10. What is Agnes’s reaction when her brother shows her the house he helped her husband purchase in Stratford?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an essay exploring the conflict between the city life and farm life in Hamnet. Use direct examples from the text to support your viewpoint.
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