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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 solve the problem of who will play Ariel?
2. What part of Felix’ plan is he apprehensive about, after getting the men to warm to Ariel and Miranda?
3. How many additional courses has Felix spun off from his original course?
4. How did Felix try to imagine Maude, Bert and their children?
5. What furniture is in the hovel Felix rents?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Anne-Marie doing in the video Felix shows the inmates, and what is their reaction?
2. What causes Felix to change his plan from Henry V to the Tempest?
3. What effect did Miranda’s death have on Felix?
4. What is Felix’ policy on cursing during rehearsals?
5. How is Shakespeare’s the Tempest presented in Hag-Seed?
6. What problems do the players have with the idea of doing the Tempest?
7. How did Felix approach Anne-Marie about playing Miranda?
8. What are some of he insults Bent Pencil collects from the Tempest?
9. What happens when Felix sees himself through Miranda’s eyes for a moment?
10. What are the productions like, that Felix stages at the Fletcher County Correctional Institute?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When is Hag-Seed most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
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
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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