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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mistress Fawcett?
(a) Shakespeare's housekeeper.
(b) Shakespeare's aunt.
(c) The flower girl who sells flowers near Shakespeare's house.
(d) Shakespeare's mother.

2. Who suggests the apprentices go to the bear pit?
(a) Gilbourne.
(b) Harry.
(c) Nat.
(d) Roper.

3. Why might someone try to harm the Queen at the play?
(a) She just executed several popular people.
(b) She just passed some very restrictive laws.
(c) She is heirless.
(d) She is a tyrant.

4. What does Nat decide to immerse himself in instead of worrying?
(a) Finding a way to make Roper less hostile.
(b) Rehearsing "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
(c) Learning all he can from Shakespeare.
(d) Finding a way back to his own time.

5. Where does the Queen ask the company to perform in a month's time?
(a) Wales.
(b) Buckingham.
(c) Greenwich.
(d) Essex.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long will the Company of Boys rehearse in their current location?

2. What play does Shakespeare write after his brief encounter with Nat?

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

4. What is performed that afternoon at the Globe?

5. How did it work that the two Nats were not discovered as being the wrong boys?

(see the answer key)

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