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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 do the security guards take from Anne-Marie on her way into the prison?

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

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

4. What thought experiment does Tony indulge in the cell?

5. What does Felix promise 8Handz, if 8Handz does a good job?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Felix say is the ninth prison, which the actors had not identified?

5. What is it like for Anne-Marie when Felix introduces her into the prison?

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

7. How does Felix feel about his play when he is five weeks out?

8. How does Felix frame Tony and Sebert?

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

10. What is Sal’s state of mind as he arrives at Fletcher County Correctional Institute for the play?

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

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

What does the title of this novel mean, according to the definitions given to the term “Hag-Seed” in the book? Who would understand that title in different ways? What does the author accomplish, by giving the title so many resonances?

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