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

2. Why do the dignitaries want to leave the prison as soon as possible?

3. What is the extra number the inmates perform for Felix?

4. What does Felix hear in his ear when he speaks Prospero’s first lines?

5. What does Leggs say Prospero does for Caliban after the play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What arrangements does Felix make with 8Handz?

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

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

10. What does Team Hag-Seed say Caliban would have done after the 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

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

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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