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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Robert doubt Nat's ability?
(a) Because Nat is merely a St. Paul's boy.
(b) Because Nat is so short.
(c) Because Nat is so tall.
(d) Because Nat slips on his first attempt.

2. What is Shakespeare's company's name?
(a) Lord Winpole's Men.
(b) Lord Chamberlain's Actors.
(c) Lord Chamberlain's Men.
(d) Globe Actors.

3. Who congratulates Nat on the speech that Oberon makes?
(a) Roper.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Harry.
(d) Arby.

4. What does Nat think is similar to the Globe Theater of 1999?
(a) Nothing that he knows.
(b) The old playhouse in Maine where he did summer stock.
(c) The Globe of 1599.
(d) Carneige Hall.

5. How are boys selected to be a part of the Company of Boys?
(a) Whoever can pay for a spot.
(b) Lottery.
(c) Court appointed boys who get in trouble.
(d) Auditions.

6. What does the person who greets Nat say he feared about Nat?
(a) That Nat would turn him in for missing rehearsal.
(b) That he was suffering from the plague.
(c) That Nat would die.
(d) That Nat was a spy from the king's court.

7. What school does Harry say Nat attends?
(a) Oxford.
(b) St. Paul's.
(c) St. Jerome's.
(d) St. Francis'.

8. How does Arby say the boy actors must function?
(a) Like teenagers.
(b) Like a family.
(c) Like apprentices.
(d) Like professionals.

9. What does Nat fight as the days go by?
(a) Illnesses.
(b) Panic.
(c) Bad pranks from Harry.
(d) Boredom.

10. To where will the Company go after this location?
(a) Paris.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) London.
(d) New York.

11. Who falls through the trap door at the wrong time?
(a) Roper.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Burbage.
(d) Shakespeare.

12. Where is the setting at the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) London.
(d) Cambridge.

13. For how long will the Company of Boys rehearse in their current location?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 months.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sam Gilbourne?

2. What is one of the plays being rehearsed?

3. Of what does Mistress Fawcett warn Nat?

4. What class does Henry Condell teach?

5. What is the first play the Company of Boys rehearses?

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