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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who/What will be at the theater if the Queen is in attendance?
(a) Special seating.
(b) Nothing different from usual.
(c) Special foods.
(d) Soldiers.

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

3. About what does Nat yearn to tell the group?
(a) His younger sister's acting.
(b) The advancements of the 20th century.
(c) The dangers of dirt.
(d) His parents' deaths.

4. What seems to confound the Nat from the 16th century in his isolation room?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The food.
(c) The words the doctors use.
(d) The modern technology.

5. 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) Lines from Puck's character.
(d) The Shakespeare sonnet Nat was given.

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

7. Who is Richard Babage?
(a) Shakespeare's brother-in-law.
(b) Aunt Jen's boyfriend.
(c) Nat's uncle.
(d) Arby.

8. What does Nat reach for under his pillow?
(a) A poem.
(b) A playbill from the Globe of 1999.
(c) A playbill from the Globe of 1599.
(d) A hat.

9. What does Aunt Jen do when she sees Nat?
(a) Laughs.
(b) Nothing as she is not there.
(c) Cries.
(d) Tousles Nat's hair.

10. What does Nurse Jenkins tell Nat?
(a) He must stay in the hospital another week.
(b) He will be leaving the hospital that day.
(c) He went home and had a relapse and had to return.
(d) He must stay in the hospital several more days.

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. Who is invited to meet the Queen after the performance?
(a) Just Nat.
(b) No one.
(c) Shakespeare, Burbage and Nat.
(d) Just Burbage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What particularly disgusts Nat about the Queen?

2. Why is Shakespeare nervous as he dresses himself in Chapter 13?

3. How does Nat feel onstage?

4. What does Rachel notice as she hugs Nat?

5. How does Nat use St. Paul's as an excuse?

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