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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kinds of books does Felix read from the library, while living in the hovel?
2. What does Felix give up his Mustang for, during his exile?
3. What are Bert and Maude, Felix’ new landlords, farming?
4. How does Felix solve the problem of who will play Miranda?
5. What causes a voice to yell “Lockdown!” to the audience in the prologue of Hag-Seed?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the productions like, that Felix stages at the Fletcher County Correctional Institute?
2. How is Felix let go from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?
3. What effect did Miranda’s death have on Felix?
4. Who are the enforcers Felix describes in the Tempest?
5. How does Felix defend Prospero against the inmates’ distrust?
6. What is Anne-Marie doing in the video Felix shows the inmates, and what is their reaction?
7. What does Felix’ bath make him think about Prospero and Miranda?
8. What problems do the players have with the idea of doing the Tempest?
9. What is Felix’ relationship with his actors like, in the Fletcher Correctional Players?
10. What unseen characters does Felix converse with?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the role of women in Hag-Seed? What are the dominant ideas about femininity, who holds them, and how are they acted out? Who resists those ideas, and how do they resist them effectively?
Essay Topic 2
Where were you most engaged with Hag-Seed? Where were you most liable to distraction or least engaged? How did Atwood construct her book in a way that would keep you interested and curious about how events would play out?
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for Hag-Seed? What is the ideal reader for Hag-Seed likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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