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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose initial calmness in regards to Agnes’s pregnancy surprised the tutor in Chapter 4?
(a) Eliza.
(b) John.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Mary.

2. What name does Joan call Agnes when she discovered she was pregnant?
(a) Whore.
(b) Fustylugs.
(c) Trollop.
(d) Prostitute.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Eliza and her brother’s older sibling who died?

2. Who lives in the apartment with Hamnet?

3. What physical trait of Agnes’s stepmother was it rumored had something to to with Agnes?

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

5. What food is Judith’s father purchasing while Judith is sick in bed in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Agnes predict when she was eight, as described in Chapter 2?

2. How does the Latin tutor feel about tutoring after meeting Agnes, and how does he begin to behave at home?

3. Why does the Latin tutor’s father receive the news of Agnes’s pregnancy much calmer than his mother?

4. Who taughter Eliza and her sister Anne to read and how?

5. Who is Hamnet looking for at the start of the novel and why?

6. What does Agnes do to people’s hands, and what does she think she can learn by doing this?

7. What are Judith’s symptoms in Chapter 1 and when did they begin?

8. How do Agnes and Mary work together in Chapter 7 when they discover Judith is sick?

9. What sign of Agnes’s mother appears to her at the wedding?

10. What does the physician’s wife ask Hamnet when he goes to her house searching for her husband, and how does she react?

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