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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Pp. 245-74.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is Agnes’s wedding dress?
(a) Lavender.
(b) Primrose.
(c) Rose.
(d) Cream.

2. Where does the cabin boy encounter a man with two amputated fingers in Chapter 11?
(a) London.
(b) Venice.
(c) Murano.
(d) Ragusa.

3. What does Agnes’s mother call her garden?
(a) The healer’s haven.
(b) The heavenly sanctuary.
(c) The fairy garden.
(d) The witch’s garden.

4. What character is staring out the window of Hewlands at the start of Chapter 2?
(a) Bartholomew.
(b) The Latin Tutor.
(c) Joan.
(d) Agnes.

5. What does Mary help Agnes do at night after everyone has left after Hamnet died?
(a) Clean his body.
(b) Make the shroud.
(c) Write to her husband.
(d) Pick flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the ship men do with the cats after they die on the cabin boy’s ship in Chapter 11?

2. What member of Agnes’s family ends up handling the box of glass beads and rags from Murano?

3. What smouldering herb does Agnes wave around the beehive in Chapter 1?

4. Who does Agnes find looking pale at the bottom of the stairs at the end of Chapter 5?

5. Why does Agnes’s husband say he will not be able to come home until after winter?

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