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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is one thing that worries Nat?
(a) Shakespeare and Burbage are frightened.
(b) Harry will get picked up because of Nat.
(c) Nat will have to return to his own time too soon.
(d) Roper will realize Nat is impersonating the other Nat.

9. How does Nat use St. Paul's as an excuse?
(a) For not wanting to start learning another play.
(b) For not knowing about the political climate.
(c) He does not use St. Paul's.
(d) For not knowing most of the other people in the theater.

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

11. 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.

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

13. About what does Sam Gilbourne ask Nat?
(a) Nat's school.
(b) The Queen's interview.
(c) Nat's brother.
(d) Nat's father.

14. When do they think Nat will be released from the hospital?
(a) In a few days.
(b) There is no telling.
(c) The next day after Jennifer arrives.
(d) Several weeks.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who tells Jennifer she cannot see Nat?

4. Who/What will be at the theater if the Queen is in attendance?

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

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