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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 imagined teenaged Miranda make Felix eat?

2. What explanation does 8Handz give for why “thou earth” is an insult (93)?

3. How does Felix describe what he is doing by renting the hovel?

4. How long a trial period does Felix get, to make his experiment with Shakespeare?

5. How will Felix solve the problem of casting the female goddesses?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of Hag-Seed. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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