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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. Why does Nat go to the theater after breakfast?
(a) To prepare for the first performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
(b) To tell the group he is returning to the United States.
(c) To ask Arby to release him from his contract.
(d) To talk to Rachel.

2. How does Nat feel about Shakespeare when the man is on the stage?
(a) Nat thinks Shakespeare should just act and not write.
(b) Nat thinks Shakespeare is not as good an actor as writer.
(c) Nat thinks Shakespeare is arrogant on the stage.
(d) In awe of Shakespeare.

3. What does Gil want to do after hearing Nat's story?
(a) Get Nat some counseling.
(b) Look in the history books to learn about the earlier Nat.
(c) Have Nat write down the sonnet Shakespeare wrote for Nat.
(d) Tell someone in the scientific community to try to get an explanation.

4. What does Nat try to figure out about his time in the earlier century?
(a) If he is the reincarnation of Nat Field.
(b) If he will ever go back there again.
(c) Nothing; he is too disoriented to be thinking of anything at the moment.
(d) If it was a dream or really happened.

5. What happens when Nat rises higher and higher in his dream?
(a) He escapes the tower.
(b) He falls out of the tower and flies away.
(c) He rises with his mother's spirit.
(d) He is free from his father's grasp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nat think is a stronger presence on stage than Shakespeare?

2. What does Nat remember from his history lesson about the Earl of Essex?

3. Who tells Jennifer she cannot see Nat?

4. What does Nat reach for under his pillow?

5. What explanation is there for why Nat Field did not see Shakespeare again?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Nat worried concerning the political situation and Shakespeare and Burbage?

2. Why does Nat argue with Arby about Nat's exit and what does Nat do?

3. How does Nat please Sam Gilbourne?

4. Describe Nat, Burbage and Shakespeare's interview with Queen Elizabeth I.

5. What do Nat and his aunt Jen decide to do?

6. What interests the company about Nat and Roper and how does Nick Tooley put Nat into an awkward position?

7. Where does Nat awaken in Chapter 17 and what does he find out?

8. What unexpected thing happens as Nat is acting and what is the outcome?

9. How does Nat feel before the performance and how does Shakespeare help Nat with those feelings?

10. In Chapter 12, who arrives at Guy's Hospital and what does the person learn?

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