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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. Where is Anne-Marie working with Felix finds her?

2. How does Felix describe what he is doing by renting the hovel?

3. Why does Felix say Miranda does not venture far from the hovel?

4. What did Felix aspire for his production of the Tempest to resemble?

5. What is Felix looking for when he drives away from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What unseen characters does Felix converse with?

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

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

6. How does Felix cast his Tempest?

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

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

9. What did Felix occupy his time with, after he moved away from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would you defend the book against the accusation that it follows the play the Tempest too closely, and becomes predictable as a result? Where does Atwood play against the play’s plot or characterizations? Does Atwood improve on the Tempest, or merely employ its themes in her work?

Essay Topic 2

What are the advantages and disadvantages of including so much back story, with Felix being fired from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival? How does Atwood use this history to establish her characters? What are the dangers of traveling back in time so far, from the present moment where most of the novel’s action takes place? Does Atwood pull it off effectively?

Essay Topic 3

Would you recommend Hag-Seed? For what purposes would you recommend Hag-Seed, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

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