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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, 275-305.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who built the apartment in which Hamnet and his family live?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His father.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) His grandfather.

3. What food is Judith’s father purchasing while Judith is sick in bed in Chapter 1?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Goose.
(c) Griddle cakes.
(d) Bread.

4. What does Mary tell Agnes she must do to her son after he is born because she did it to her sons and they all grew to be strong?
(a) Sing to him.
(b) Rock him.
(c) Swaddle him.
(d) Nurse him.

5. What did Eliza and her brother find in the attic which upset their father?
(a) Money.
(b) Boxes of unsold gloves.
(c) Old love letters.
(d) Wool bales.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finds Agnes while she is on her way to the forest to give birth in Chapter 116?

2. Which character is drunk and spills ale on his paperwork in Chapter 1?

3. After Agnes has the twins, why does it become unlikely the family will join their father in London?

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

5. What does the physicians wife ask Hamnet if Judith has before pushing him away?

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