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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Nat find comforting even in the heat of an argument?
(a) Shakespeare's voice.
(b) Sleep.
(c) The sound of stage directions from Arby.
(d) Harry's guidance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nat remember from his history lesson about the Earl of Essex?

2. What does Shakespeare say Nat must do about St. Paul's?

3. What is Shakespeare's company's name?

4. What play is Shakespeare thinking of writing?

5. Where does Jennifer come from to go to Guy's hospital?

(see the answer key)

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