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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the plays being rehearsed?
(a) As You Like It.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

2. Who does Richard Burbage resemble in Nat's mind?
(a) Gil.
(b) Nat's grandfather.
(c) Arby.
(d) Nat's father.

3. How does Nat feel in this time period?
(a) As if he has lived in this time before.
(b) Comfortable.
(c) Confused.
(d) Like he does not belong.

4. What does Nat hear as he is going to practice on his first day?
(a) A wolf howling.
(b) The sound of horses clopping along.
(c) Big Ben striking the hour.
(d) Distant music.

5. What does Nat realize about Roper?
(a) Roper is just like Nat's best friend in the United States.
(b) Roper's dislike is enviousness.
(c) Roper is just like Nat's brother.
(d) Roper cannot read.

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

7. Who is Rachel?
(a) She plays Desdemona.
(b) The costume director.
(c) The scenery artist.
(d) The voice coach.

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

9. To where does Nat fear he has traveled?
(a) 1709.
(b) 1699.
(c) 1499.
(d) 1599.

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

11. What is performed that afternoon at the Globe?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Henry V.
(d) Much Ado About Nothing.

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

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

14. Why does Nat go to bed early?
(a) To avoid the other boys.
(b) He is tired from the excitement of the first rehearsal.
(c) He wants to get up early to learn his lines.
(d) He gets a high fever.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Shakespeare's company's name?

2. What does Shakespeare change about how Nat learned his part in the United States in a later era?

3. Who denies any wrongdoing?

4. Where does Nat move in Chapter 10?

5. Who offers to let Nat live with him?

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