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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Felix characterize the prison employees’ opinions about how damaged the prisoners are?
(a) Lies.
(b) Liberal projection.
(c) Twaddle.
(d) An underestimate.

2. What does Felix train the guards and inmates to say instead of “break a leg” (77)?
(a) Wish me merde.
(b) Do it, man.
(c) Break their legs.
(d) Here’s looking at you.

3. How will Felix solve the problem of casting the female goddesses?
(a) He will play them himself.
(b) He will rotate men through those roles.
(c) He will omit their scenes.
(d) He will use puppets.

4. What does Felix say Tony did to him, before he seized power?
(a) Slandered him.
(b) Resurrected him.
(c) Denigrated him.
(d) Isolated him.

5. What is Felix looking for when he drives away from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?
(a) His home town.
(b) A place to lay low.
(c) A pub.
(d) A friend’s house.

6. What improvement does Felix make to the hovel?
(a) Digs a well for water.
(b) Runs electricity.
(c) Adds a fireplace.
(d) Installs indoor plumbing.

7. Which part can Felix not immediately see an actor for, in his first meeting with the inmates to stage the Tempest?
(a) Stephano.
(b) Gonzalo.
(c) Alonso.
(d) Antonio.

8. What does Felix say is the heart of his “secret project” (141)?
(a) Ferdinand.
(b) Anne-Marie.
(c) The goblins.
(d) Caliban.

9. How did Felix try to imagine Maude, Bert and their children?
(a) As characters in his person Tempest.
(b) As accomplices in his revenge.
(c) As sailors during his storm.
(d) As criminals.

10. What does Anne-Marie say the rumors had claimed, about Felix’ disappearance from Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?
(a) That Tony had killed him.
(b) That he had had a scandalous affair.
(c) That he had dead suddenly.
(d) That he had fled the law.

11. What kind of writing does the novel open with?
(a) Screenplay.
(b) Prose.
(c) Stage play.
(d) Poetry.

12. According to the Marilyn Monroe quote, what do you have to become, if you are a nobody who wants to be somebody?
(a) A slave to fashion.
(b) Somebody else.
(c) Your true self.
(d) Whatever the world wants.

13. What did Felix aspire for his production of the Tempest to resemble?
(a) The Parthenon.
(b) The Colossus of Rhodes.
(c) The great pyramids.
(d) The Taj Mahal.

14. How does Felix solve the problem of who will play Ariel?
(a) He says that they will deal with that later.
(b) He says that he will hire an actress for Ariel.
(c) He says that Ariel will be a puppet.
(d) He says that all the actors will rotate through that part.

15. What does Felix tell the men, to make them warm up to Ariel?
(a) He is a prisoner who breaks free.
(b) He has super powers.
(c) He is immortal.
(d) He is an alien.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Felix say would complete his humiliation?

2. What does Felix include in the cast list for Anne-Marie?

3. What was Tony’s job at the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

4. When does Part I of Hag-Seed begin?

5. What kinds of books does Felix read from the library, while living in the hovel?

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