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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was Nat nervous about meeting?
(a) His aunt who he had not seen since he was a baby.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Arby.
(d) His grandmother who he had not seen since he was a baby.

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

4. Why does the nameless Lord ask Shakespeare to cancel one of the performances at the Globe?
(a) There is too much poverty and entertainment is crass at this time.
(b) So the Globe can be completed properly for the Queen's visit.
(c) The weather is so dry, there is a fire hazard.
(d) For the Queen's safety.

5. What does Nat say as to how his father died?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Plane accident.
(d) Car accident.

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

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

8. Who guides Nat in his dream?
(a) His dog.
(b) His father.
(c) An unseen hand.
(d) His mother.

9. Who offers to let Nat live with him?
(a) Shelton.
(b) No one.
(c) Burbage.
(d) Shakespeare.

10. How does Gil Warmun carry himself on stage?
(a) Like an old man.
(b) Like a beggar.
(c) Like a clown.
(d) Like a real-life king.

11. What seems louder to Nat?
(a) The actors reading their lines.
(b) The noise level of Elizabethan England.
(c) The creak of the stage boards.
(d) The sounds from the orchestra pit.

12. What does Arby point out to Nat?
(a) His sloppy appearance.
(b) His bad acting habits.
(c) His bad haircut.
(d) His hair color.

13. What does Nat notice about Harry's speech?
(a) It sounds like a Southern accent from the United States.
(b) He does not know much of the vocabularly Harry uses.
(c) Harry has a lisp.
(d) The words are difficult to understand.

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

15. How many members are in the Company of Boys?
(a) 33.
(b) 15.
(c) 24.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where will the Company go after this location?

2. What does Gilbourne urge the apprentices to do?

3. What do the apprentices eat for lunch?

4. What does Nat fight as the days go by?

5. What does Nat realize about Roper?

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