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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. Why does Felix say that simple curses are unacceptable?

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

4. What does Felix include in the cast list for Anne-Marie?

5. What reason does Felix give for declining to seduce Tony’s wife as revenge?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is Anne-Marie doing in the video Felix shows the inmates, and what is their reaction?

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What can we tell about her, based on the choices she makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

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