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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 17, Part II, pp. 217-244. .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the cabin boy ordered to leave the ship in Chapter 11?
(a) To deliver a package.
(b) To find new crewmembers.
(c) Because he was drunk.
(d) To get food for his mates.

2. In what part of Hewlands do Agnes and the Latin tutor make love for the first time in Chapter 4?
(a) Her bedroom.
(b) The henhouse.
(c) Her garden.
(d) The apple store.

3. What happens to Hamnet at the very end of Chapter 17?
(a) He eats soup.
(b) He is taken by the physician.
(c) He recovers.
(d) He dies.

4. Who does Joan tell the Latin Tutor Agnes will be marrying?
(a) A schoolteacher.
(b) A farmer.
(c) A government official.
(d) An innkeeper.

5. Who carries Hamnet’s body to the burial site?
(a) Hamnet’s father and Bartholomew.
(b) Hamnet’s father and grandfather.
(c) Bartholomew and Edmond.
(d) Hamnet’s father and uncle Edmond.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first animal to die on the cabin boy’s ship?

2. What word does Agnes repeat while laboring in Chapter 10?

3. What does Joan say about the Latin tutor’s father when she sees him holding hands with Agnes in Chapter 4?

4. How does Agnes behave after Hamnet’s death?

5. Where does Bartholomew suggest Agnes’s husband go for work after she tells her brother of his mood?

(see the answer key)

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