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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What insect comes between Agnes’s brother and husband allowing her husband to free himself from Bartholomew’s grasp in Chapter 10?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A bee.
(c) A flea.
(d) A mosquito.

2. Which character is the only one who seems to know where Hamnet has been when he is daydreaming?
(a) Mary.
(b) Agnes.
(c) John.
(d) Susanna.

3. What does Hamnet’s grandmother tell him he looks like when he goes to get her at the cookhouse per his mother’s instructions in Chapter 7?
(a) A rat.
(b) A girl.
(c) A man.
(d) A ghost.

4. Where was John heading when Hamnet passed him on the way to the physician’s house?
(a) The inn.
(b) His workshop.
(c) The post office.
(d) The tavern.

5. Where is the Latin tutor when Eliza gets him to tell him he needs to go home in Chapter 4?
(a) The tavern.
(b) His father’s stand at the market.
(c) The attic.
(d) The library.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Mary’s daughter when she died of the pestilence years earlier?

2. Who carries Agnes away after she has given birth to Susanna?

3. What does Agnes’s mother call her garden?

4. What does Susanna imagine other mothers are doing while her mother is out “gathering weeds...muddying her boots” (53)?

5. Where is Hamnet's mother when he is searching for help with Judith?

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