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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why might someone try to harm the Queen at the play?
(a) She is a tyrant.
(b) She just executed several popular people.
(c) She just passed some very restrictive laws.
(d) She is heirless.

2. Why does Nat fall?
(a) The trap door was open.
(b) A stage prop was not moved?
(c) A boy trips him.
(d) He gets dizzy.

3. What does Gilbourne urge the apprentices to do?
(a) Get enough sleep.
(b) Put the incident of the trapdoor behind them.
(c) Memorize their lines thoroughly.
(d) Stay and watch the play and learn from it.

4. Why does Nat go to bed early?
(a) To avoid the other boys.
(b) He is tired from the excitement of the first rehearsal.
(c) He wants to get up early to learn his lines.
(d) He gets a high fever.

5. What does Nat forbid any of the boys to see?
(a) Any plays that would be unfit for young boys.
(b) Some of the seamier sides of London.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Any other performances at the Globe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Robert doubt Nat's ability?

2. What does Nat think is similar to the Globe Theater of 1999?

3. How does Gil Warmun carry himself on stage?

4. For what skills does Arby particularly admire Nat?

5. What role will Richard Burbage assume in the play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

(see the answer key)

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