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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class does Henry Condell teach?
(a) Tumbling.
(b) Elocution.
(c) Gesture.
(d) Costume.

2. What is one of the plays being rehearsed?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) As You Like It.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

3. Why does Mrs. Fischer become worried?
(a) Arby has told them about Nat's parents.
(b) Gil is quite ill.
(c) Nat has not returned there after rehearsal.
(d) Nat's fever worsens during the night.

4. Who congratulates Nat on the speech that Oberon makes?
(a) Harry.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Roper.
(d) Arby.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nat notice about Harry's speech?

2. Whose voice sounds somewhat like Elizabethan English?

3. What play is Shakespeare thinking of writing?

4. What does Nat hear as he is going to practice on his first day?

5. What is the date of the opening of Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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