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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shakespeare say to keep a secret from the teachers at St. Paul's?
(a) Nat's ten shillings.
(b) That Nat declined an offer from the Queen.
(c) That Nat's father is dead.
(d) That Nat knows Shakespeare.

2. What does Shakespeare read to Nat?
(a) A letter from the Queen.
(b) Part of his new play called Hamlet.
(c) A sonnet.
(d) A letter to his son Shakespeare wrote just before the son dies.

3. Who escorts Nat and Shakespeare home?
(a) Harry's older brother.
(b) The theater manager.
(c) Roper's older brother.
(d) A hired bodyguard.

4. What does the audience break out with spontaneously?
(a) "Traitors".
(b) "Give Us A King".
(c) Nothing.
(d) "God Save the Queen".

5. How does Nat feel onstage?
(a) Confident.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Happy.

6. What does Harry say to Nat about Nat's reply to Nick's question?
(a) A wise woman is a witch.
(b) A wise woman is burned at the stake if she is caught.
(c) A wise woman is a nun.
(d) Nothing.

7. What kind of mood is Arby in when Nat arrives?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Jocular.
(c) Irritable.
(d) Mean.

8. What does Nick Tooley ask Nat about Nat's aunt?
(a) If she is his dad's sister.
(b) If she is a wise woman.
(c) If she is an actor.
(d) If she is married.

9. What character will Nat play next summer with the Company of Boys?
(a) Ariel.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Puck.
(d) Lysander.

10. Of what acting group did the earlier Nat Field join?
(a) The Lord of Essex's Company Players.
(b) The Queen's Troupe.
(c) The Blackfriar's Boys.
(d) Lord Chamberlain's Men.

11. Who tells Jennifer she cannot see Nat?
(a) The floor administrator.
(b) The doctor.
(c) The paramedic.
(d) Nurse Stevens.

12. Who compliments Burbage for his costume?
(a) A nameless Lord.
(b) The Queen.
(c) Nat.
(d) Shakespeare.

13. What does Arby recite from memory?
(a) Lines from Puck's character.
(b) Lines from Hamlet that were edited out before the final cut.
(c) The Prologue to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(d) The Shakespeare sonnet Nat was given.

14. When do they think Nat will be released from the hospital?
(a) Several weeks.
(b) The next day after Jennifer arrives.
(c) There is no telling.
(d) In a few days.

15. What does Nat remember from his history lesson about the Earl of Essex?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The Queen had the Earl executed.
(c) The Earl died of the plague.
(d) The Earl adopted a son from the theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nat perceive the Queen's way of talking?

2. How many books mention the earlier Nat Field?

3. Why does Arby say Shakespeare was sad?

4. Why is the Nat of the modern era sad?

5. Why does a day laborer flash a sign to ward evil at Nat?

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