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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many members are in the Company of Boys?
(a) 18.
(b) 24.
(c) 15.
(d) 33.

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

5. Who stops an altercation between Roper and Nat?
(a) Harry.
(b) Shelton.
(c) Burbage.
(d) Shakespeare and another actor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nat realize about the bear?

2. What play is Shakespeare thinking of writing?

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

4. Where is the setting at the opening of Chapter 1?

5. Who is Rachel?

(see the answer key)

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