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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 is the first play the Company of Boys rehearses?
(a) Othello.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(d) As You Like It.

2. Who/What will be at the theater if the Queen is in attendance?
(a) Special seating.
(b) Special foods.
(c) Nothing different from usual.
(d) Soldiers.

3. Who does Arby kick out of the company?
(a) No one.
(b) A boy who refuses to play the games.
(c) A boy who is too young to be there.
(d) A boy who plays a trick on Nat.

4. What does Nat reach for under his pillow?
(a) A hat.
(b) A playbill from the Globe of 1599.
(c) A poem.
(d) A playbill from the Globe of 1999.

5. What does Nat ask if he can do when he graduates St. Paul's?
(a) Become a squire.
(b) Join the actor's company.
(c) Become a page.
(d) Be Shakespeare's secretary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What play is Shakespeare thinking of writing?

2. What character does Nat play in one of the plays?

3. What class does Henry Condell teach?

4. For what skills does Arby particularly admire Nat?

5. About what does Shakespeare congratulate Nat?

(see the answer key)

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