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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. How long a trial period does Felix get, to make his experiment with Shakespeare?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 1 semester.
(d) 3 weeks.

2. What is the significance of Felix’ penname, F. Duke?
(a) Prospero was a duke.
(b) He was descended from an English duke.
(c) Duke is his brand of cigarettes.
(d) He grew up in the town of Duke, Illinois.

3. What are Bert and Maude, Felix’ new landlords, farming?
(a) Corn.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Alfalfa.
(d) Tobacco.

4. What is the good news Estelle has for Felix?
(a) Felix’s films of Shakespeare plays will be broadcast.
(b) The ministers are coming to visit.
(c) Felix can teach additional courses.
(d) Felix can get a pay raise.

5. What conclusion does Felix draw, about Prospero bathing on the island?
(a) He says that Miranda would have guarded his books while he bathed.
(b) He says that he probably did not bathe.
(c) He says that he locked Caliban up while he bathed.
(d) He says that Ariel would have stood guard while he bathed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Felix brushing when Part I begins?

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

3. When Felix shows the inmates a video to introduce them to Anne-Marie, what is Anne-Marie doing in the video?

4. How does Felix defend Prospero’s actions in relation to Caliban?

5. What behavior does Felix describe as “full blown lunacy” (45)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Felix end up after leaving the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

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

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

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

5. What unseen characters does Felix converse with?

6. What does Felix bring with him to remember his daughter?

7. How does Felix cast his Tempest?

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

9. What kind of suspense is created in the opening scene?

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

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