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

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

3. What does Felix do once he stops fantasizing about revenge against Tony?

4. How does Felix solve the problem of who will play Ariel?

5. When does Hag-Seed begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Felix’ relationship with his actors like, in the Fletcher Correctional Players?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of grief in Hag-Seed? How do characters act, because of it? How do they purge it? What are characters like after they have grieved and purged their grief?

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of women in Hag-Seed? What are the dominant ideas about femininity, who holds them, and how are they acted out? Who resists those ideas, and how do they resist them effectively?

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