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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does John believe Hamnet will take over the glove business?
(a) Because he is very smart.
(b) Because he is business savvy.
(c) Because he is a boy.
(d) Because he is good at glove making.

3. What did the Latin tutor begin to do on the days he did not have to tutor?
(a) Lie in bed.
(b) Go to the tavern.
(c) Help his father in the workshop.
(d) Work the farm at Hewlands.

4. Who comes to the door in Chapter 9 and looks like a ghost to Hamnet?
(a) The physician.
(b) John.
(c) His father.
(d) Judith.

5. Who was Hewlands left to after Agnes’s father died?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Joan.
(c) Bartholomew.
(d) The priest.

6. Who does Agnes find looking pale at the bottom of the stairs at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Hamnet.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Judith.

7. What was Agnes’s mother doing when she died?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Giving birth.
(c) Walking in the forest with her children.
(d) Cooking.

8. Why does John hurl himself at Edmond at dinner one night in Chapter 8?
(a) Edmond spits food on the table.
(b) Edmond calls him a name.
(c) Edmond kicks his leg under the table.
(d) Edmond throws food at him.

9. How old was Mary’s daughter when she died of the pestilence years earlier?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.

10. Where does Agnes feel she falls in the hierarchy of her husband’s family when they first move in?
(a) Between the apprentice and hen.
(b) Between the maid and the apprentice.
(c) Between the pigs and the maid.
(d) Between the sons and daughter.

11. What rumor does Eliza tell her brother she has heard in Chapter 4?
(a) That his father’s business is closing.
(b) That his father’s debt will never be paid off.
(c) That he has been seeing Agnes.
(d) That Agnes is engaged.

12. Who is the Latin tutor shocked to see in the parlor after Eliza had told him to go home in Chapter 4?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Bartholomew.
(c) Joan.
(d) Agnes.

13. What animals were Hamnet and his sister playing with when she first complained of a headache?
(a) Birds.
(b) Squirrels.
(c) Kittens.
(d) Puppies.

14. Why did John see Agnes’s pregnancy was a good thing for him?
(a) Because his son would finally move.
(b) Because of her dowry.
(c) Because he was going to be a grandfather.
(d) Because he wanted someone to take over his glove business.

15. What does the physicians wife ask Hamnet if Judith has before pushing him away?
(a) A rash.
(b) A fever.
(c) A stomach ache.
(d) Buboes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eliza’s brother describe Agnes to her?

2. Which of the glover’s children seemed to endure the brunt of his rages?

3. Which of her husband’s relatives does Agnes foresee dying after having many children?

4. 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?

5. Which child writes the responses to their father’s letters because Agnes does not write well?

(see the answer keys)

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