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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 part of Felix’ plan is he apprehensive about, after getting the men to warm to Ariel and Miranda?
(a) The unpredictable men.
(b) The amount of luck required.
(c) The technical parts he cannot master.
(d) The contraband he will need.

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

3. What objection do Leggs and others make, to the Tempest?
(a) There is not a love interest.
(b) It has a fairy in it.
(c) The play is too American.
(d) Prospero is too old.

4. What kinds of books does Felix read from the library, while living in the hovel?
(a) Classic literature.
(b) Drama criticism.
(c) Revenge plays.
(d) Children’s books.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the inmates want to play Caliban?

2. What does Anne-Marie say the rumors had claimed, about Felix’ disappearance from Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

3. What reason does Felix give for declining to seduce Tony’s wife as revenge?

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

5. What was Felix planning to stage, before he found out about the ministers’ visit and decided to do the Tempest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of he insults Bent Pencil collects from the Tempest?

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

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

4. What problems do the players have with the idea of doing the Tempest?

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

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

7. What does Felix’ bath make him think about Prospero and Miranda?

8. What are the productions like, that Felix stages at the Fletcher County Correctional Institute?

9. How is Felix let go from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

10. What is Felix’ relationship with his daughter’s memory like?

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