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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. Who finds Agnes while she is on her way to the forest to give birth in Chapter 116?
(a) John.
(b) Eliza.
(c) Gilbert.
(d) Mary.

2. Who helps Judith’s father get a horse to go to Stratford after he receives the letter of her ailing health?
(a) A fellow playwright.
(b) Heminge.
(c) An actor.
(d) A stranger.

3. Who is the person who is certain where Agnes has gone to give birth in chapter 10?
(a) Bartholomew.
(b) Mary.
(c) Joan.
(d) Agnes’s husband.

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

5. What is the first animal to die on the cabin boy’s ship?
(a) A rat.
(b) A dog.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Judith think her father does not come to visit after Hamnet’s death?

2. What happens to Hamnet at the very end of Chapter 17?

3. What objects of Hamnet’s is Agnes sitting with when her daughters get her to gather rosehips?

4. How does Hamnet feel after waking after Mary leaves to mail the letter Eliza wrote?

5. What is the first moment Agnes cries after Hamnet’s death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mary feel regarding Judith’s illness at the start of Chapter 13?

2. What is the first event in Chapter 11 that had to happen in order for the pestilence to get to Judith in 1596?

3. How does Judith end up encountering the boxes with the flea-ridden rags?

4. How does the letter finally reach Judith’s father in Chapter 15?

5. What plan does Bartholomew come up with in Chapter 12 after Agnes tells of her husband’s changed mood?

6. Why is there a bit of a rush to bury Hamnet after his death?

7. What is Agnes’s reaction when her brother shows her the house he helped her husband purchase in Stratford?

8. What does Eliza write to her brother regarding Judith in Chapter 13?

9. Why does Agnes leave her apartment early in the morning at the start of Chapter 10?

10. What is the second event in Chapter 11 that had to happen in order for the pestilence to get to Judith in 1596?

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