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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mistress Fawcett?
(a) The flower girl who sells flowers near Shakespeare's house.
(b) Shakespeare's housekeeper.
(c) Shakespeare's aunt.
(d) Shakespeare's mother.

2. What do the nurses fail to notice about Nat?
(a) That he is using vocabularly that is not used in the late 20th century.
(b) That he looks and sounds different from other boys his age.
(c) That he has a different eye color than the boy brought in.
(d) That he is speaking French.

3. Why does the nameless Lord ask Shakespeare to cancel one of the performances at the Globe?
(a) So the Globe can be completed properly for the Queen's visit.
(b) For the Queen's safety.
(c) There is too much poverty and entertainment is crass at this time.
(d) The weather is so dry, there is a fire hazard.

4. What does Nat think is similar to the Globe Theater of 1999?
(a) Carneige Hall.
(b) The old playhouse in Maine where he did summer stock.
(c) The Globe of 1599.
(d) Nothing that he knows.

5. What seems louder to Nat?
(a) The actors reading their lines.
(b) The creak of the stage boards.
(c) The sounds from the orchestra pit.
(d) The noise level of Elizabethan England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Nat lying semi-delirious in his real time?

2. What does Nurse Stevens do that calms Nat to sleep?

3. How does Nat perceive the Queen's way of talking?

4. Who compliments Burbage for his costume?

5. What does Shakespeare say to keep a secret from the teachers at St. Paul's?

(see the answer key)

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