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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Arby say Shakespeare was sad?
(a) At the loss of Nat after losing Hammet.
(b) Because Burbage betrays him.
(c) Nat Field never returned to Shakespeare's Company.
(d) Because the Queen never trusts him.

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

3. How many books mention the earlier Nat Field?
(a) 1.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

4. About what does Shakespeare congratulate Nat?
(a) Nat's accent.
(b) His composure on stage.
(c) His memorization of his lines.
(d) The way Nat makes Puck look non-human.

5. Where is Nat in the dream he has?
(a) He is in the tower with Burbage.
(b) He is a child playing with his father.
(c) He is back in Tudor England.
(d) He is with his mother before she died.

6. What does Nat decide to immerse himself in instead of worrying?
(a) Finding a way back to his own time.
(b) Rehearsing "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
(c) Learning all he can from Shakespeare.
(d) Finding a way to make Roper less hostile.

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

8. 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 a nun.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A wise woman is burned at the stake if she is caught.

9. What do Gil and Rachel realize is a result of the swap of the two Nats?
(a) There's more information about that time.
(b) Shakespeare does not contract the plague and die.
(c) Nat can act just as Shakespeare directed him.
(d) Nat can become a Shakespeare expert.

10. What is one book Arby gives Nat?
(a) A book about Queen Elizabeth.
(b) A book that has a picture of Nat Field from the earlier era.
(c) A book of Shakespeare's sonnets.
(d) A book about the writing of Hamlet.

11. How does Nat feel about Shakespeare when the man is on the stage?
(a) Nat thinks Shakespeare is arrogant on the stage.
(b) In awe of Shakespeare.
(c) Nat thinks Shakespeare is not as good an actor as writer.
(d) Nat thinks Shakespeare should just act and not write.

12. What does Shakespeare say Nat must do about St. Paul's?
(a) Return there.
(b) Leave the school.
(c) Ask St. Paul's to teach students more about politics.
(d) Start a theater group there.

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

14. What does Gil want to do after hearing Nat's story?
(a) Tell someone in the scientific community to try to get an explanation.
(b) Have Nat write down the sonnet Shakespeare wrote for Nat.
(c) Look in the history books to learn about the earlier Nat.
(d) Get Nat some counseling.

15. Who is Jennifer Field?
(a) Nat's next-door neighbor.
(b) Nat's aunt.
(c) Nat's mother.
(d) Nat's oldest sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rachel notice as she hugs Nat?

2. What do Nat and his Aunt Jen agree to do?

3. What color is Gilbourne's wig?

4. Who does Nat think is a stronger presence on stage than Shakespeare?

5. How does Shakespeare calm Nat?

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