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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Nat save Roper's life?
(a) Using the Heimlich maneuver.
(b) Cutting a rope that Roper became entangled in.
(c) Giving him antibiotics for the plague.
(d) Pulling him away from a deranged man with a knife.

6. Where do some of the boys live when they are in London?
(a) Hostels.
(b) In an orphanage.
(c) In an old WWII barracks.
(d) At the theater.

7. Who is Harry?
(a) Nat's understudy.
(b) Nat's father.
(c) The young boy who greets Nat when Nat awakens.
(d) Nat's best friend in the United States.

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

9. What part does Gil Warmun play?
(a) Brabantio.
(b) Oberon.
(c) Rozancrantz.
(d) Gonerill.

10. Who is Richard Burbage?
(a) The man who schedules the various performances at the globe.
(b) Nat's aunt's boyfriend.
(c) The man with whom Nat and Harry are living.
(d) Nat's father's best friend.

11. How can the boys afford to go to the bear pit?
(a) Their parents give him an allowance.
(b) Roper stole money from Burbage.
(c) Roper stole money from Harry.
(d) They can sneak in since Roper knows a way.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Nat lying semi-delirious in his real time?

2. What is performed that afternoon at the Globe?

3. Who does Arby kick out of the company?

4. Why does Nat not allow himself to cry?

5. What do Nat and Harry do during the afternoon performance?

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