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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Felix say he was distracted by, that put him in the position he is in?
(a) His magic hobby.
(b) His literary work.
(c) His daughter’s death.
(d) His marriage collapsing.

2. What does Felix say people on the outside would do to get the instruction he is giving the inmates?
(a) Pay huge sums.
(b) Kill.
(c) Wait for years.
(d) Betray their friends.

3. What reason does Felix give for declining to seduce Tony’s wife as revenge?
(a) She is ugly.
(b) She died recently.
(c) She was his lover once already.
(d) She is cold.

4. How is Shakespeare’s prose represented in Hag-Seed?
(a) As impressionistic dance.
(b) Verbatim.
(c) As rap.
(d) As music.

5. What does Felix refer to as the “dead husk of his drowned self” (63)?
(a) His photos of his wife and Miranda.
(b) The Makeshiweg Theatre Festival.
(c) His Prospero robe.
(d) His old car.

6. How many of the inmates want to play Caliban?
(a) 8.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 18.

7. How does Felix overcome Estelle’s objections about doing Shakespeare in the Literacy Through Literature program?
(a) He says that anything less than Shakespeare is not literature.
(b) He says that Shakespeare understood incarceration.
(c) He says that Shakespeare’s players were all journeymen.
(d) He says that Shakespeare contains the greatest number of life’s lessons per play.

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

9. What role does Anne-Marie say Felix is already playing for her?
(a) Overbearing landowner.
(b) Protective father.
(c) Troublesome brother.
(d) Demanding landlord.

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

11. What explanation does 8Handz give for why “thou earth” is an insult (93)?
(a) Racism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Colonialism.
(d) Environmentalism.

12. What does Anne-Marie have tattooed on her as reminder of her production of the Tempest at Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?
(a) A cannibal.
(b) A bee.
(c) A sorcerer’s staff.
(d) An island.

13. Where does Hag-Seed begin?
(a) Fletcher County Correctional Institute.
(b) Felix’ hovel.
(c) Makeshiweg Theatre Festival.
(d) On the road.

14. What color do the men say Ariel’s costume should be?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Gray.

15. What does Felix sign up for using his alias F. Duke?
(a) Gym membership.
(b) Credit cards.
(c) Makeshiweg Theatre Festival subscription.
(d) Coffee of the month club.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Felix says under his breath, to Miranda?

2. What does Bent Pencil identify as the real reason for all of Prospero’s manipulations?

3. What would Felix serve at his cast parties?

4. What is Anne-Marie’s suggestion for the parts of Iris, Ceres and Juno?

5. What does Felix say his enterprise will ultimately depend on?

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