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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 does Red Coyote say that Caliban should be First Nations?

2. How does Felix describe Anne-Marie in her costume?

3. Who remains awake while some of the dignitaries drift off into a drugged sleep?

4. What color cups do Tony Price and Sebert Stanley get, at Felix’ performance?

5. Which of Felix’ actors has qualms about the legality of Felix’ plans?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to throw WonderBoy and Anne-Marie off their rhythm, after their first successful scene together?

3. What does Felix say is Miranda’s role in the production?

4. How does Miranda put an end to the play Felix is running?

5. What does Felix say was the ultimate goal of staging the Tempest?

6. How does Felix frame Tony and Sebert?

7. What is the significance of the song “merrily, merrily” which 8Handz hears in his headset?

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

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

10. What is the news Estelle has to meet Felix suddenly, to tell him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What is the role of women in Hag-Seed? What are the dominant ideas about femininity, who holds them, and how are they acted out? Who resists those ideas, and how do they resist them effectively?

Essay Topic 3

When is Hag-Seed most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

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