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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. What is the name of the market Agnes stops at in the start of Chapter 10?
(a) Stratford.
(b) Rother.
(c) Henley.
(d) Richard.

2. What word does Agnes repeat while laboring in Chapter 10?
(a) Forest.
(b) Rowan.
(c) Kestrel.
(d) Susanna.

3. What does the animal the cabin boy encountered leave on his body before his owner jerks him away?
(a) Urine.
(b) Bite marks.
(c) Three fleas.
(d) Feces.

4. Chapter 11 describes the events that needed to take place in order for the pestilence to reach where in 1596?
(a) Oxford, England.
(b) The Hewlands.
(c) London, England.
(d) Warwickshire, England.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the cabin boy ordered to leave the ship in Chapter 11?

2. Why does Agnes go outside in the middle of the night in Part II?

3. Where does Agnes’s husband begin working after he stops selling gloves in London?

4. What does Agnes suspect her husband has been doing in London when he first visits after Hamnet’s funeral?

5. How does Agnes behave after Hamnet’s death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Hamnet’s father worry about staying away from London for too long after his son’s funeral?

4. What signifies to Agnes that she is pregnant again in Chapter 12, and what meaning does this have?

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

6. What do Susanna and Judith force Agnes to do while she is sitting with Hamnet’s pebble collection?

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

8. How does Bartholomew know where his sister has gone when her husband and family cannot find her in Chapter 10?

9. What does Agnes make Mary promise when she feels she is going to die after delivering her twins?

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

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