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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 does the residence smell like, where Felix finds a new home?

2. What does Felix tell his actors they become when they come to his class?

3. What was Tony’s job at the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

4. How does Felix describe his production with the men Anne-Marie calls “crims” (143)?

5. How many years into his exile has Felix gone, when he takes the job at the Fletcher County Correctional Institute?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Felix cast his Tempest?

3. How has Felix expanded his course offering into four courses at Fletcher County Correctional Institute?

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

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

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

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

8. What is the prison like for Felix, and what kind of arrangements have been made for his security?

9. What happens when Felix sees himself through Miranda’s eyes for a moment?

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

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

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 3

Identify the most important plot points in Hag-Seed. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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