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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the good news Estelle has for Felix?

4. Where does Hag-Seed begin?

5. What does Felix refer to as the “dead husk of his drowned self” (63)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Felix approach Anne-Marie about playing Miranda?

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

3. How is Shakespeare’s the Tempest presented in Hag-Seed?

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

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

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

7. How does Felix defend Prospero against the inmates’ distrust?

8. What do the inmates think about Caliban, and what problem does this cause for Felix?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Miranda reminds Felix that the rarer art is in forgiveness than revenge. In what way does Hag-Seed practice forgiveness? In what way does it practice revenge? Does Felix treat those terms as simple, in his planning, or does he complicate the meaning of those terms?

Essay Topic 2

Who is the audience for Hag-Seed? What is the ideal reader for Hag-Seed likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

Essay Topic 3

Where were you most engaged with Hag-Seed? Where were you most liable to distraction or least engaged? How did Atwood construct her book in a way that would keep you interested and curious about how events would play out?

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