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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 is Felix’ magician cape made of?

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

3. What does the imagined teenaged Miranda make Felix eat?

4. Why do so many men want to play Caliban?

5. How does Felix overcome Estelle’s objections about doing Shakespeare in the Literacy Through Literature program?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What problems do the players have with the idea of doing the Tempest?

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

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

5. What is Felix’ relationship with his daughter’s memory like?

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

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

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

9. What unseen characters does Felix converse with?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

How would you defend the book against the accusation that it follows the play the Tempest too closely, and becomes predictable as a result? Where does Atwood play against the play’s plot or characterizations? Does Atwood improve on the Tempest, or merely employ its themes in her work?

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