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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens when Nat rises higher and higher in his dream?
(a) He rises with his mother's spirit.
(b) He falls out of the tower and flies away.
(c) He escapes the tower.
(d) He is free from his father's grasp.

4. 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.

5. Where does the Queen ask the company to perform in a month's time?
(a) Essex.
(b) Greenwich.
(c) Buckingham.
(d) Wales.

6. What does the flag flying over the Globe indicate?
(a) The flag indicates that the theater is closed.
(b) It is flown to show the Globe's loyalty to the Queen.
(c) The flag indicates that the Duke of York is in attendance at the performance.
(d) There will be a performance that afternoon.

7. What does Nat ask if he can do when he graduates St. Paul's?
(a) Join the actor's company.
(b) Be Shakespeare's secretary.
(c) Become a squire.
(d) Become a page.

8. What particularly disgusts Nat about the Queen?
(a) Her enjoyment of obvious flattery.
(b) Her mean remarks.
(c) Her body odor.
(d) Her rotten teeth.

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

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

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

12. What does Nat compare when he is able to go back to rehearsals?
(a) Shakespeare's lines then versus now.
(b) Each person and their possible counterpart.
(c) Nothing; there is no comparison.
(d) The Globe of the two time periods.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Arby say was a task he was given?

3. What does Nat worry about as far as St. Paul's school is concerned?

4. Of what acting group did the earlier Nat Field join?

5. Who is Jennifer Field?

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