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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shakespeare change about how Nat learned his part in the United States in a later era?
(a) Some lines.
(b) How Nat walks.
(c) Stage exit.
(d) Where Nat says his lines.

2. Why does Mrs. Fischer become worried?
(a) Arby has told them about Nat's parents.
(b) Nat's fever worsens during the night.
(c) Gil is quite ill.
(d) Nat has not returned there after rehearsal.

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

4. Who intends to give Nat private rehearsal time?
(a) Shelton.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Burbage.
(d) Marlowe.

5. To what do the other apprentices attribute Nat's differences?
(a) Nat's being from Franch.
(b) They cannot account for Nat's differences.
(c) Nat's being a student from St. Paul.
(d) Nat's being from Ireland.

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

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

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

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

10. Who stops an altercation between Roper and Nat?
(a) Harry.
(b) Burbage.
(c) Shelton.
(d) Shakespeare and another actor.

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

12. What does Nat find comforting even in the heat of an argument?
(a) Shakespeare's voice.
(b) The sound of stage directions from Arby.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Harry's guidance.

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

14. Who signals Nat and Harry incorrectly?
(a) Gilbourne.
(b) Burbage.
(c) No one.
(d) Roper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Nat live?

2. Where is the setting at the opening of Chapter 1?

3. Why does Nat not allow himself to cry?

4. How can the boys afford to go to the bear pit?

5. What school does Harry say Nat attends?

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