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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many living children did Agnes’s birth mother give birth to?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

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

3. Who entered Hewlands and stopped Joan from hitting Agnes when she discovered she was pregnant?
(a) The Latin tutor.
(b) Eliza.
(c) Bartholomew.
(d) John.

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

5. What does Agnes do while Bartholomew and Joan are still discussing Agnes’s pregnancy?
(a) She argues with them.
(b) She hides in the forest.
(c) She writes a letter to the Latin tutor.
(d) She packs her things and leaves Hewlands.

6. Who does Agnes’s father marry after her mother dies?
(a) Jane.
(b) Judith.
(c) Jan.
(d) Joan.

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

8. How did Eliza and Anne’s brother teach them how to read?
(a) With a slate he had stolen from school.
(b) Using pieces of straw to make letters.
(c) By having them trace over his schoolwork.
(d) By tracing letters in dust with his finger.

9. Which of her husband’s relatives does Agnes foresee dying after having many children?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Anne.
(c) John.
(d) Edmond.

10. When Hamnet returns home in Chapter 3 he is sure his mother will be there and will have given Judith what?
(a) A bath.
(b) One of her magic tinctures.
(c) Her healing hugs.
(d) Medicine from the physician.

11. What does Hamnet ask his mother about Judith when she sees her upstairs for the first time in Chapter 7?
(a) He asks if Judith will die.
(b) He asks if his mother is feeling ill.
(c) He asks if Judith has the pestilence.
(d) He asks if he will get sick too.

12. For what was John fined and ultimately shunned from the community?
(a) Not attending church.
(b) Public drunkenness.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Making counterfeit goods.

13. What physical trait of Agnes’s stepmother was it rumored had something to to with Agnes?
(a) The cut on her lip.
(b) The boils on her face.
(c) The rash on her hands.
(d) Her limp.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which characters worked out the marriage plan between Agnes and the tutor?

2. With what object would Agnes’s stepmother hit her?

3. Who built the apartment in which Hamnet and his family live?

4. What name does Joan call Agnes when she discovered she was pregnant?

5. 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?

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