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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. Where have the dignitaries been before coming to the prison?

2. What metaphor does Tony use to describe his relationship with Sal O’Nally?

3. Who arrives to comfort Freddie in his cell?

4. What does 8Handz hear in his headset while he and Felix are cleaning up the tech?

5. Where do the goblins escort the ministers to, from the cells?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Felix do for work after the production of the Tempest?

2. What arrangements does Felix make with 8Handz?

3. Who are the dignitaries who are coming to see Felix’s the Tempest?

4. How do Freddie and Anne-Marie become close throughout the performance?

5. How does Miranda fit in with the other actors on her first day?

6. How do Freddie and Miranda wrap up the play Felix has staged?

7. What happens to Felix when he goes on the cruise?

8. What momentary crisis does Felix have in his relationship with Miranda?

9. What does Anne-Marie say in Miranda’s defense?

10. What does Felix tell Sal and Tony when he appears to them as himself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where were you most engaged with Hag-Seed? Where were you most liable to distraction or least engaged? How did Atwood construct her book in a way that would keep you interested and curious about how events would play out?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the ending of Hag-Seed. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

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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