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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Shakespearen play is quoted at the beginning of Part II of Hamnet?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

2. Who does Eliza write to to tell about Judith’s declining health?
(a) Joan.
(b) Bartholomew.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

3. What does Judith make to keep the lock of Hamnet’s hair his mother had cut off?
(a) A glass bowl.
(b) A wooden box.
(c) A silk pouch.
(d) A leather pouch.

4. What does Hamnet’s body lie on top of at the start of Part II?
(a) The couch.
(b) The table.
(c) A pallet on the floor.
(d) A door laid across two barrels.

5. What happens to Hamnet at the very end of Chapter 17?
(a) He dies.
(b) He is taken by the physician.
(c) He recovers.
(d) He eats soup.

6. Who carries Hamnet’s body to the burial site?
(a) Hamnet’s father and uncle Edmond.
(b) Bartholomew and Edmond.
(c) Hamnet’s father and grandfather.
(d) Hamnet’s father and Bartholomew.

7. What town has Judith’s father gone to at the start of Chapter 15?
(a) London.
(b) Stokenchurch.
(c) Murano.
(d) Kent.

8. Who helps Agnes’s husband broker a deal for a new home for Agnes and her children?
(a) Bartholomew.
(b) John.
(c) Gilbert.
(d) Edmond.

9. What does Agnes notice about Hamnet when she wakes in Chapter 17?
(a) He has left.
(b) He fell asleep.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He has been up all night stoking the fire.

10. Which family member is said to cry constantly after Hamnet’s death in Part II?
(a) Edmond.
(b) Mary.
(c) John.
(d) Judith.

11. What does Agnes make Mary promise her when Agnes thinks she is going to die after giving birth to twins?
(a) Make her son move back to Henley Street.
(b) Send her children to London.
(c) Make sure Joan does not raise her children.
(d) Give the children to Bartholomew.

12. What does Hamnet do when he pulls the covers over his and his sister’s head in Chapter 13?
(a) He holds her and cries.
(b) He breathes his strength and health into her.
(c) He falls asleep.
(d) He prays.

13. What does Agnes suspect her husband has been doing in London when he first visits after Hamnet’s funeral?
(a) Not working at all.
(b) Drinking too much.
(c) Seeing other women.
(d) Working too hard.

14. Why does Agnes go outside in the middle of the night in Part II?
(a) She thinks her husband has come home.
(b) She hears her son’s cry.
(c) She hears feet outside her window.
(d) She is sleepwalking.

15. What year is it at the start of Chapter 10?
(a) 1583.
(b) 1683.
(c) 1603.
(d) 1483.

Short Answer Questions

1. What insect comes between Agnes’s brother and husband allowing her husband to free himself from Bartholomew’s grasp in Chapter 10?

2. Who tells Agnes that they will see to the funeral arrangements in Part II?

3. Who is the first person seeking a cure that Agnes agrees to see after Hamnet’s death?

4. Where does Agnes’s husband tell her he wants to buy a house for the family?

5. What does Agnes’s husband confess to her at the start of Chapter 12 after she says he looks ill?

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