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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class does John Heminges teach?
(a) Singing.
(b) Tumbling.
(c) Fencing.
(d) Elocution.

2. Who is a leading actor in the Lord Chamberlain's Men?
(a) Richard Burbage.
(b) Nat.
(c) Harry.
(d) William Shakespeare.

3. What does Mistress Fawcett say about Shakespeare when he is working upstairs?
(a) Shakespeare is not to be disturbed.
(b) Shakespeare often has others come and join him upstairs and they are not to be disturbed.
(c) Shakespeare often makes strange noises and to ignore that.
(d) Shakespeare often buys flowers and tips her well.

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

5. Where is Nat when he wakes in Chapter 4?
(a) In a theater in Paris.
(b) Back in his bed at his aunt's house in the United States.
(c) In his bed at the Jones' household.
(d) In a different bed from that at the Fisher's.

6. Why does Arby make the boys play the games?
(a) To see which ones are the leaders.
(b) As a means of asserting his control over the boys.
(c) To build trust and become acquainted.
(d) To give them a break from serious work.

7. In what theater will the Company perform?
(a) Globe.
(b) Carneige.
(c) A series of theaters around the United States.
(d) Metro.

8. Of what does Mistress Fawcett warn Nat?
(a) Not to go out on the streets alone.
(b) Not to drink any water that is not boiled.
(c) To always remove his shoes at the door so as not to disturb Shakespeare.
(d) Not to drink the ale in the pub next door.

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

10. What is the date of the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) 1699.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1899.

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

12. Why does Nat not allow himself to cry?
(a) He thinks it is wrong for someone his age to cry.
(b) He's afraid he'll break down and not be able to stop.
(c) It reminds him of when his father died.
(d) He's afraid Roper will see him.

13. With what does the doctor on duty believe Nat suffers?
(a) Measles.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Bubonic plague.
(d) Cholera.

14. What does Nat realize about the bear?
(a) It is very old.
(b) It is a baby.
(c) It is blind.
(d) It is muzzled.

15. What is the name of Shakespeare's son?
(a) John.
(b) Hanmet.
(c) Rosencrantz.
(d) Othello.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Nat feeling when he wakes?

2. Who is Arby?

3. Where do some of the boys live when they are in London?

4. Who congratulates Nat on the speech that Oberon makes?

5. What is performed that afternoon at the Globe?

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