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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What part does Sam Gilbourne play?
(a) Demetrius.
(b) Egeus.
(c) Hippolyta.
(d) Lysander.

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

5. What offer does Nat decline?
(a) To live with Shakespeare full time.
(b) To accompany Burbage to his country estate.
(c) To play Hamlet when Shakespeare finishes it.
(d) To be a page in the Queen's court.

6. What explanation is there for why Nat Field did not see Shakespeare again?
(a) Nat was offered a spot in a more prestigious group.
(b) Shakespeare dies before Nat graduates from St. Paul's.
(c) They are not sure why.
(d) The real Nat Field of that era never met Shakespeare.

7. With what does Burbage paint Nat's body?
(a) A symbol of the actor's guild.
(b) Egg whites so Nat glimmers.
(c) Green leaves.
(d) Red paint to represent the devil.

8. Who is Sam Gilbourne dressed to resemble?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) Shakespeare's wife.
(c) Catherine of Aragon.
(d) Anne Boleyn.

9. Where does Jennifer come from to go to Guy's hospital?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Georgia.
(d) New Orleans.

10. What does Arby say was a task he was given?
(a) To make Nat famous.
(b) To be a substitute father to Nat.
(c) To save Shakespeare.
(d) To teach the boys good acting skills.

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

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

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

14. What does Nat try to figure out about his time in the earlier century?
(a) If he will ever go back there again.
(b) If it was a dream or really happened.
(c) If he is the reincarnation of Nat Field.
(d) Nothing; he is too disoriented to be thinking of anything at the moment.

15. Who does Nat think is a stronger presence on stage than Shakespeare?
(a) Sam.
(b) Burbage.
(c) Gil.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the audience break out with spontaneously?

2. What seems to confound the Nat from the 16th century in his isolation room?

3. About what does Nat yearn to tell the group?

4. What does the flag flying over the Globe indicate?

5. What is the other book Arby gives Nat?

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