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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16 and Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nurse Stevens do that calms Nat to sleep?
(a) Gives him an sleeping pill.
(b) Sings a few lines from a Shakespeare play.
(c) Hums a 16th century lullaby.
(d) Recites a few lines from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

2. What does the audience break out with spontaneously?
(a) "Traitors".
(b) "God Save the Queen".
(c) "Give Us A King".
(d) Nothing.

3. What does Nat hear as he is going to practice on his first day?
(a) Big Ben striking the hour.
(b) Distant music.
(c) A wolf howling.
(d) The sound of horses clopping along.

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

5. What does Nat remember from his history lesson about the Earl of Essex?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The Earl adopted a son from the theater.
(c) The Earl died of the plague.
(d) The Queen had the Earl executed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing that worries Nat?

2. Upon whose behalf does Burbage plead mercy?

3. Who is Sam Gilbourne?

4. Who is Arby?

5. How far is Shakespeare's home from the Globe?

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