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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 town has Judith’s father gone to at the start of Chapter 15?
2. Where does Agnes go to birth her child in Chapter 10?
3. Where does Agnes’s husband tell her he is going to by land to bring in “good rent” at the end of Chapter 16?
4. What do the ship men do with the cats after they die on the cabin boy’s ship in Chapter 11?
5. What does Agnes make Mary promise her when Agnes thinks she is going to die after giving birth to twins?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Hamnet and Judith change places in Chapter 17, and what happens to Hamnet at the end?
2. What does Agnes make Mary promise when she feels she is going to die after delivering her twins?
3. What moment sets Agnes in tears while she is sewing her son’s burial shroud?
4. How does the letter finally reach Judith’s father in Chapter 15?
5. What is the first event in Chapter 11 that had to happen in order for the pestilence to get to Judith in 1596?
6. 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?
7. What does Agnes’s husband propose he will do since she cannot move the family to London?
8. How does Bartholomew know where his sister has gone when her husband and family cannot find her in Chapter 10?
9. What plan does Bartholomew come up with in Chapter 12 after Agnes tells of her husband’s changed mood?
10. What does Eliza write to her brother regarding Judith in Chapter 13?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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 analyzing Hamnet’s commentary on the marriage during the time the novel takes place.
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