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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Nat realize must have happened to him?
(a) His father must have helped him transport to the earlier era.
(b) He had a hallucinogenic dream while very ill.
(c) He fell through a dimensional warp.
(d) He somehow switched places with the Nat Field of the earlier era.

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

4. What does the audience yell at Nat as he is playing Puck?
(a) Go home.
(b) Witch.
(c) A warning about a mistake Puck is about to make.
(d) Warlock.

5. What does Nat sleep with under his pillow?
(a) His last tooth that fell out.
(b) A translation of King Lear.
(c) A drawing of the Queen.
(d) Shakespeare's sonnet.

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

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

8. What does Nat worry about as far as St. Paul's school is concerned?
(a) That he'll return there and no one will recognize him.
(b) That the school will cease to exist if Nat creates a paradox.
(c) That he will take the plague to the school.
(d) That the school will reopen before Nat gets back to his time.

9. Why do Gil and Rachel believe Nat's tale about his trip to an earlier time?
(a) The sonnet Nat has that is penned in Shakespeare's own hand.
(b) The coin Nat has.
(c) The details Nat supplies and the green leaf.
(d) They do not believe him.

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

11. What fascinates everyone in the acting company?
(a) How Nat can suggest the right things to do for someone's illness.
(b) Some of Nat's vocabulary.
(c) Nat saving Roper's life.
(d) Nat's acrobatic moves.

12. What does Nat hope will happen as he returns to St. Paul's?
(a) Something mysterious will happen.
(b) No one will realize Nat is not Nat Field.
(c) He will be recognized as a talented actor.
(d) He will not be allowed to return to St. Paul's.

13. What does Arby explain to Nat?
(a) That time does not always travel in a straight line.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That Nat is not the boss of the Company of Boys.
(d) That Shakespeare died centuries ago.

14. What does Shakespeare say about the show to Burbage and Nat?
(a) It will be a private performance for the Queen only.
(b) It will be a double feature.
(c) It will be sold out.
(d) It will start a little late because of security issues.

15. How does Nat perceive the Queen's way of talking?
(a) As disjointed.
(b) As condescending.
(c) As thoughtless.
(d) As flirtatious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nat's impression of the Queen?

2. What does Harry say to Nat about Nat's reply to Nick's question?

3. What does Nat reach for under his pillow?

4. What happens when Nat rises higher and higher in his dream?

5. How many books mention the earlier Nat Field?

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