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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does the Company of Boys comprise?
(a) The actors, theater crew, rehearsal staff and costume maker.
(b) The actors and rehearsal staff.
(c) The rehearsal staff and the board of trustees.
(d) The actors.

2. Where is Nat lying semi-delirious in his real time?
(a) His room in a London orphanage.
(b) His room at the Fischer home.
(c) Guy's Hospital.
(d) He is not ill any longer.

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

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

5. What character does Nat play in one of the plays?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Othello.
(c) Puck.
(d) King Lear.

6. Where is the setting at the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) London.
(b) New York.
(c) Boston.
(d) Cambridge.

7. What puts Nat at ease where he is staying?
(a) There is a boy his age with whom Nat immediately bonds.
(b) They allow him to do anything.
(c) The barracks are not well supervised.
(d) No one inquires about his parents.

8. When is the Company of Boys allowed to rehearse at the theater?
(a) Only on early Saturday and Sunday mornings.
(b) Not for several days after their arrival in London.
(c) Only from 10-11:30 p.m. weekdays.
(d) Only from 4-6 a.m. weekdays.

9. What does Nat think is similar to the Globe Theater of 1999?
(a) Carneige Hall.
(b) Nothing that he knows.
(c) The Globe of 1599.
(d) The old playhouse in Maine where he did summer stock.

10. Who is Arby?
(a) The company director.
(b) The lead actor.
(c) The oldest teen.
(d) The company's owner.

11. To where will the Company go after this location?
(a) London.
(b) New York.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Paris.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What class does John Heminges teach?

2. How far is Shakespeare's home from the Globe?

3. What is the first play the Company of Boys rehearses?

4. Of what does Nat dream?

5. Who falls through the trap door at the wrong time?

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