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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. Who fantasizes about the ideal society in the Tempest?

2. What does Felix say most of the men shipwrecked on Prospero’s island want?

3. What does Felix train the guards and inmates to say instead of “break a leg” (77)?

4. Where does Hag-Seed begin?

5. When Felix shows the inmates a video to introduce them to Anne-Marie, what is Anne-Marie doing in the video?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Felix bring with him to remember his daughter?

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

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

5. How did Felix approach Anne-Marie about playing Miranda?

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

7. What do the inmates think about Caliban, and what problem does this cause for Felix?

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

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

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

Would you recommend Hag-Seed? For what purposes would you recommend Hag-Seed, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What does the title of this novel mean, according to the definitions given to the term “Hag-Seed” in the book? Who would understand that title in different ways? What does the author accomplish, by giving the title so many resonances?

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