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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Of what does Nat dream?
(a) His dead dog.
(b) His dead brother.
(c) His parents.
(d) Flying high above Earth.
2. Who is Arby?
(a) The lead actor.
(b) The company director.
(c) The company's owner.
(d) The oldest teen.
3. What do the apprentices eat for lunch?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Bread and jam.
(c) Bread and cheese.
(d) Meat pies and beer.
4. Who suggests the apprentices go to the bear pit?
(a) Gilbourne.
(b) Nat.
(c) Roper.
(d) Harry.
5. What do the nurses fail to notice about Nat?
(a) That he is speaking French.
(b) That he looks and sounds different from other boys his age.
(c) That he has a different eye color than the boy brought in.
(d) That he is using vocabularly that is not used in the late 20th century.
6. Who does Arby kick out of the company?
(a) A boy who is too young to be there.
(b) No one.
(c) A boy who plays a trick on Nat.
(d) A boy who refuses to play the games.
7. Who does Arby say has a Southern accent?
(a) Brett.
(b) Nat.
(c) William.
(d) Joseph.
8. What does Arby point out to Nat?
(a) His sloppy appearance.
(b) His bad acting habits.
(c) His hair color.
(d) His bad haircut.
9. What seems louder to Nat?
(a) The noise level of Elizabethan England.
(b) The actors reading their lines.
(c) The creak of the stage boards.
(d) The sounds from the orchestra pit.
10. Why does Nat go to bed early?
(a) To avoid the other boys.
(b) He gets a high fever.
(c) He wants to get up early to learn his lines.
(d) He is tired from the excitement of the first rehearsal.
11. To what do the other apprentices attribute Nat's differences?
(a) They cannot account for Nat's differences.
(b) Nat's being from Ireland.
(c) Nat's being from Franch.
(d) Nat's being a student from St. Paul.
12. What is the first play the Company of Boys rehearses?
(a) Othello.
(b) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(c) As You Like It.
(d) Hamlet.
13. What does Nat notice about Harry's speech?
(a) He does not know much of the vocabularly Harry uses.
(b) Harry has a lisp.
(c) It sounds like a Southern accent from the United States.
(d) The words are difficult to understand.
14. How does Nat feel in this time period?
(a) Comfortable.
(b) Confused.
(c) Like he does not belong.
(d) As if he has lived in this time before.
15. What does Nat think of some of the games the boys play?
(a) They are too difficult.
(b) They are childish.
(c) They are quite fun.
(d) They do not have any purpose.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose voice sounds somewhat like Elizabethan English?
2. Who is Harry?
3. What school does Harry say Nat attends?
4. What does Nat think is similar to the Globe Theater of 1999?
5. What is the date of the opening of Chapter 1?
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