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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. 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 dead suddenly.
(c) That he had had a scandalous affair.
(d) That he had fled the law.

2. How many years into his exile has Felix gone, when he takes the job at the Fletcher County Correctional Institute?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

3. When does Felix tell the inmates he will reveal the last of the prisons in the Tempest?
(a) After the play.
(b) When they are all paroled.
(c) When they get to the appropriate scene.
(d) When the ministers arrive.

4. What does Felix say most of the men shipwrecked on Prospero’s island want?
(a) Money.
(b) Power.
(c) Liberty.
(d) Recognition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Felix’ plan is he apprehensive about, after getting the men to warm to Ariel and Miranda?

2. What does Felix say people on the outside would do to get the instruction he is giving the inmates?

3. Where does Hag-Seed begin?

4. What kind of writing does the novel open with?

5. How many prisons does Felix say there are in the Tempest?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Felix get the men to want to play Ariel?

2. What causes Felix to change his plan from Henry V to the Tempest?

3. What is Tony Price’s role in Hag-Seed?

4. What is Anne-Marie doing in the video Felix shows the inmates, and what is their reaction?

5. What effect did Miranda’s death have on Felix?

6. How is Tony Price doing, in the first five years of Felix’ exile to the shanty?

7. Who are the enforcers Felix describes in the Tempest?

8. How is time structured at the beginning of Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed?

9. What is Felix’ relationship with his actors like, in the Fletcher Correctional Players?

10. What is Felix’ policy on cursing during rehearsals?

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