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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 does Leggs say is Caliban’s father?

2. How does Felix say Anne-Marie treats the men?

3. What position are Sebert Stanley and Sal O’Nally competing for?

4. What does Team Ariel conclude about Ariel’s nature?

5. What does Felix have to do, to go on a cruise for free?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the actors wish each other good luck?

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

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

5. How does Felix frame Tony and Sebert?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Felix tell the ministers—and the other inmates and officials in the prison—in order to camouflage his play within a play?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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