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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. Why is Felix delighted to hear Estelle’s news?
2. What does Felix promise 8Handz, if 8Handz does a good job?
3. What does Felix hear in his ear when he speaks Prospero’s first lines?
4. What does Felix bring with him to rehearsal, as a gift to the men?
5. What does Felix say is the last prison, which the men had not identified yet?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Felix tell the ministers—and the other inmates and officials in the prison—in order to camouflage his play within a play?
2. What is the news Estelle has to meet Felix suddenly, to tell him?
3. What arrangements does Felix make with 8Handz?
4. What does Felix say was the ultimate goal of staging the Tempest?
5. Who are the dignitaries who are coming to see Felix’s the Tempest?
6. What is Sal’s state of mind as he arrives at Fletcher County Correctional Institute for the play?
7. How does Miranda fit in with the other actors on her first day?
8. What is it like for Anne-Marie when Felix introduces her into the prison?
9. What does the Ariel team conclude about Ariel’s life after the Tempest?
10. What metaphor does Tony use, to describe his relationship with Sal O’Nally?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Who is the audience for Hag-Seed? What is the ideal reader for Hag-Seed likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 3
What topics would you like to research further, after reading Hag-Seed? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Hag-Seed.
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