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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 causes Felix’ hangover?
2. What is the cell Freddie is kept in decorated with?
3. What is it that breaks Felix’ spell of vengeance?
4. What does Felix say Miranda feels on leaving the prison?
5. What has Anne-Marie brought for the cast party?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Miranda fit in with the other actors on her first day?
2. How does Miranda put an end to the play Felix is running?
3. What is it like for Anne-Marie when Felix introduces her into the prison?
4. What is the surprise Leggs has for Felix?
5. What does Felix say is Miranda’s role in the production?
6. What happens to throw WonderBoy and Anne-Marie off their rhythm, after their first successful scene together?
7. What does Felix tell the ministers—and the other inmates and officials in the prison—in order to camouflage his play within a play?
8. How do Freddie and Anne-Marie become close throughout the performance?
9. What is the significance of the song “merrily, merrily” which 8Handz hears in his headset?
10. What does Anne-Marie say in Miranda’s defense?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the role of grief in Hag-Seed? How do characters act, because of it? How do they purge it? What are characters like after they have grieved and purged their grief?
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
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?
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