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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has excited the Latin tutor about teaching Latin in Chapter 4?
(a) The debt is nearly paid off.
(b) Meeting Agnes.
(c) The boys have been making excellent progress.
(d) He got a raise.

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

3. What smouldering herb does Agnes wave around the beehive in Chapter 1?
(a) Rosemary.
(b) Feverfew.
(c) Sage.
(d) Chickweed.

4. How many living children did Agnes’s birth mother give birth to?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

5. What does Susanna imagine other mothers are doing while her mother is out “gathering weeds...muddying her boots” (53)?
(a) Feeding their children bread and stew.
(b) Scrubbing floors.
(c) Mending clothes.
(d) Washing their children’s muddied clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what part of Hewlands do Agnes and the tutor first kiss in Chapter 2?

2. Who is described as being in a joyful mood on the day of the wedding?

3. What happens at her wedding after Agnes silently asks her mother to show her presence?

4. What does Hamnet ask his mother about Judith when she sees her upstairs for the first time in Chapter 7?

5. When does the father tell them he will come home from London?

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