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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 is Felix relying on TimEEz to do?

2. What does Felix have to chastise himself to do toward the end of Part III?

3. Why does Red Coyote say that Caliban should be First Nations?

4. What does TimEEz do as soon as the lights go out?

5. What does Felix tell Miranda about, for the first time, after his shopping trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the surprise Leggs has for Felix?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the advantages and disadvantages of including so much back story, with Felix being fired from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival? How does Atwood use this history to establish her characters? What are the dangers of traveling back in time so far, from the present moment where most of the novel’s action takes place? Does Atwood pull it off effectively?

Essay Topic 2

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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