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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the glover’s children seemed to endure the brunt of his rages?
(a) His youngest daughter.
(b) His youngest son.
(c) His eldest son.
(d) His eldest daughter.

2. Where does Agnes go after dropping honey and herbs off at home without realizing Hamnet and Judith are upstairs?
(a) Back to Hewlands.
(b) The guildhall.
(c) The cookhouse.
(d) The market.

3. Which character does Hamnet’s father tell him to stay clear of when he was in “one of his black humors”?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His uncle.
(c) The innkeeper.
(d) The apprentice.

4. How old was Agnes when she predicted that death of a visitor?
(a) 10.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 18.

5. Why did the tutor need his parent’s permission to marry Agnes?
(a) Because they were in debt to Agnes’s family.
(b) Because they were controlling.
(c) Because all marriages required parental permission back then.
(d) Because of his young age.

6. Who is the first to come home in Chapter 3 after Hamnet, not knowing Hamnet and Judith are upstairs?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Their father.
(d) Mary.

7. Why does Agnes wake before dawn when she moves into the apartment after the wedding?
(a) Because she had lived on a farm and is accustomed to waking early.
(b) So she can secretly learn to read.
(c) So she can put spells on the family.
(d) Because she wants to cook breakfast since she hates Mary’s cooking.

8. What do people often ask Susanna about which irritates her?
(a) Her grandfather’s glove business.
(b) Her father’s life in London.
(c) Her mother’s abilities.
(d) Her siblings behavior.

9. Which young character is sick at the start of Hamnet?
(a) Hamnet.
(b) Mary.
(c) Judith.
(d) Susanna.

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

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

12. Who comes to the apartment on Henley Street to inspect it before Agnes is able to move in?
(a) John.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Joan.
(d) Bartholomew.

13. Who is the person who gestures to the Latin tutor to go to the parlor after Eliza had told him to go home?
(a) Ned.
(b) Edmond.
(c) Mary.
(d) John.

14. In what part of Hewlands do Agnes and the Latin tutor make love for the first time in Chapter 4?
(a) The henhouse.
(b) Her bedroom.
(c) The apple store.
(d) Her garden.

15. Whose money does John, a once prosperous man, rely on in Chapter 1?
(a) His son.
(b) His wife.
(c) His daughter-in-law.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mary react when her son told her that he was the father of Agnes’s baby?

2. Where does Hamnet’s father work and write about in his letters from London in Chapter 3?

3. Where was John heading when Hamnet passed him on the way to the physician’s house?

4. What kind of soap does Mary find Agnes and Eliza washing Edmond with in Chapter 8?

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

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