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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 Felix have to chastise himself to do toward the end of Part III?

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

3. What has Anne-Marie brought for the cast party?

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

5. What is Felix considering at the start of Part IV?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What arrangements does Felix make with 8Handz?

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

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

8. Why is Felix not finished with his work, when he is driving away from the Fletcher County Correctional Institute after the play?

9. What does Felix buy in Toronto the second time?

10. How does Felix frame Tony and Sebert?

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

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

What is the role of imagination in Hag-Seed? What does imagination do for the characters who exercise it? What are the advantages and disadvantages of imagination?

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