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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 was Tony’s job at the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

2. What do the audience members attribute the black out to, in the prologue of Hag-Seed?

3. What does Felix say Tony did to him, before he seized power?

4. What is Felix looking for when he drives away from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

5. How is Shakespeare’s prose represented in Hag-Seed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Felix occupy his time with, after he moved away from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

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

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

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

5. How does Felix get the men to want to play Ariel?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Miranda reminds Felix that the rarer art is in forgiveness than revenge. In what way does Hag-Seed practice forgiveness? In what way does it practice revenge? Does Felix treat those terms as simple, in his planning, or does he complicate the meaning of those terms?

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