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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Arby recite from memory?
(a) Lines from Hamlet that were edited out before the final cut.
(b) Lines from Puck's character.
(c) The Prologue to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(d) The Shakespeare sonnet Nat was given.

4. How does Nat leave the hospital?
(a) He cannot leave yet.
(b) In a wheelchair.
(c) On a gurney.
(d) Walking slowly.

5. About what does Nat tell Gil from his time with Shakespeare?
(a) About Shakespeare's political involvments.
(b) About the sonnet Shakespeare gives Nat.
(c) About Shakespeare's wonderful wife.
(d) About Shakespeare's son.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What does Rachel notice as she hugs Nat?
(a) A poem sticking out of Nat's pocket.
(b) He is much thinner.
(c) A green leaf painted on Nat's neck.
(d) An old gold coin on the table with Queen Elizabeth I's picture on it.

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 the audience break out with spontaneously?
(a) "God Save the Queen".
(b) "Traitors".
(c) Nothing.
(d) "Give Us A King".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nat hope will happen as he returns to St. Paul's?

2. About what does Sam Gilbourne ask Nat?

3. What does Nurse Jenkins tell Nat?

4. What does Nat ask if he can do when he graduates St. Paul's?

5. What does Aunt Jen do when she sees Nat?

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