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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who intends to give Nat private rehearsal time?
(a) Marlowe.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Burbage.
(d) Shelton.

2. What do Nat and Harry do during the afternoon performance?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Work the trapdoor.
(c) Learn their lines.
(d) Help change the stage sets.

3. Who signals Nat and Harry incorrectly?
(a) Roper.
(b) Burbage.
(c) Gilbourne.
(d) No one.

4. What does the person who greets Nat say he feared about Nat?
(a) That Nat was a spy from the king's court.
(b) That Nat would die.
(c) That he was suffering from the plague.
(d) That Nat would turn him in for missing rehearsal.

5. What puts Nat at ease where he is staying?
(a) There is a boy his age with whom Nat immediately bonds.
(b) No one inquires about his parents.
(c) The barracks are not well supervised.
(d) They allow him to do anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nat become uncomfortable with the group's conversation?

2. Who does Arby kick out of the company?

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

4. Of what does the Company of Boys comprise?

5. Why does Mrs. Fischer become worried?

(see the answer key)

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