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

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

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) Prospero is too old.
(d) The play is too American.

4. Where is Anne-Marie working with Felix finds her?
(a) A painter’s studio.
(b) A law office.
(c) A high school.
(d) A coffee shop.

5. When does Part I of Hag-Seed begin?
(a) January 2013.
(b) February 2006.
(c) March 2009.
(d) April 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion does Felix draw, about Prospero bathing on the island?

2. Who fantasizes about the ideal society in the Tempest?

3. What does the imagined teenaged Miranda make Felix eat?

4. What does Felix see when he looks at himself through Miranda’s eyes?

5. What does Felix say has been his trademark as a director?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How has Felix expanded his course offering into four courses at Fletcher County Correctional Institute?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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