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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 are Bert and Maude, Felix’ new landlords, farming?

2. What causes a voice to yell “Lockdown!” to the audience in the prologue of Hag-Seed?

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

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

5. What does Felix sign up for using his alias F. Duke?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What causes Felix to change his plan from Henry V to the Tempest?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of imagination in Hag-Seed? What does imagination do for the characters who exercise it? What are the advantages and disadvantages of imagination?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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