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

3. Where does Hag-Seed begin?

4. What does Felix tell the men, to make them warm up to Ariel?

5. How does Felix convince the inmates to stage the Tempest?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is Tony Price’s role in Hag-Seed?

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

9. What does Felix do to his identity when he rents the shanty?

10. What unseen characters does Felix converse with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Where were you most engaged with Hag-Seed? Where were you most liable to distraction or least engaged? How did Atwood construct her book in a way that would keep you interested and curious about how events would play out?

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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