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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 and Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Arby say the boy actors must function?
(a) Like a family.
(b) Like professionals.
(c) Like apprentices.
(d) Like teenagers.

2. 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) Nothing that he knows.
(d) The Globe of 1599.

3. Whose voice sounds somewhat like Elizabethan English?
(a) Arby's.
(b) Nat's.
(c) Gil's.
(d) No one's.

4. What happens when Nat and the other boys are running to practice?
(a) Nat loses his way.
(b) Nat is pushed down by an older boy.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Nat stumbles.

5. When is the Company of Boys allowed to rehearse at the theater?
(a) Only from 4-6 a.m. weekdays.
(b) Only on early Saturday and Sunday mornings.
(c) Not for several days after their arrival in London.
(d) Only from 10-11:30 p.m. weekdays.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Arby kick out of the company?

2. What is one of the plays being rehearsed?

3. What class does John Heminges teach?

4. Where do some of the boys live when they are in London?

5. Who is a leading actor in the Lord Chamberlain's Men?

(see the answer key)

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