Hag-Seed Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Hag-Seed Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Felix’ wife die of?
(a) Car crash.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) Meningitis.
(d) Staph infection.

2. What causes a voice to yell “Lockdown!” to the audience in the prologue of Hag-Seed?
(a) Someone having a medical issue.
(b) A prisoner escaping.
(c) The sound of shots.
(d) A blackout.

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

4. Why does Felix say that simple curses are unacceptable?
(a) They are too vulgar.
(b) They suppress too much meaning.
(c) They are monotonous.
(d) They are meaningless.

5. What behavior does Felix describe as “full blown lunacy” (45)?
(a) Writing a play.
(b) Stalking Tony Price.
(c) Isolating himself.
(d) Imagining Miranda’s growth.

6. What part will all of the men play, in addition to their own roles?
(a) Harpies.
(b) Prospero’s enforcers.
(c) Sailors.
(d) Revelers.

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

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

9. When does Hag-Seed begin?
(a) April 1990.
(b) January 2006.
(c) March 2003.
(d) February, 2013.

10. 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 contains the greatest number of life’s lessons per play.
(c) He says that Shakespeare’s players were all journeymen.
(d) He says that Shakespeare understood incarceration.

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

12. Who volunteers to be on Team Ariel after Felix’ explanation?
(a) All the men.
(b) SnakeEye, Leggs, 8Handz and Bent Pencil.
(c) Leggs and 8Handz.
(d) WonderBoy and PPod.

13. How does Felix say the men will handle the bee-sucking line?
(a) They will rewrite it.
(b) They will take turns reprising it.
(c) They will omit it.
(d) They will all chant it together.

14. 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) Your true self.
(c) Somebody else.
(d) Whatever the world wants.

15. Who fantasizes about the ideal society in the Tempest?
(a) Ferdinand.
(b) Alonso.
(c) Antonio.
(d) Gonzalo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of Felix’ penname, F. Duke?

2. How long a trial period does Felix get, to make his experiment with Shakespeare?

3. Why do so many men want to play Caliban?

4. What does Felix do once he stops fantasizing about revenge against Tony?

5. What is Felix’ policy on cursing?

(see the answer keys)

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