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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Harry say to Nat about Nat's reply to Nick's question?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A wise woman is burned at the stake if she is caught.
(c) A wise woman is a witch.
(d) A wise woman is a nun.

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

4. Why is Shakespeare nervous as he dresses himself in Chapter 13?
(a) He has an audience with the King.
(b) He is not nervous, just dressing more carefully.
(c) It is the day that the Queen is to attend the Globe.
(d) Nat has to go back to St. Paul's the next day.

5. How does Nat feel about Shakespeare when the man is on the stage?
(a) In awe of Shakespeare.
(b) Nat thinks Shakespeare should just act and not write.
(c) Nat thinks Shakespeare is not as good an actor as writer.
(d) Nat thinks Shakespeare is arrogant on the stage.

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

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

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

9. What confuses Nat?
(a) The accents of the nurses.
(b) All the machinery in the hospital.
(c) Waking up in different time zones for the second time in a week.
(d) The appearance of Harry.

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

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

12. Who visits Nat at the Fisher's home?
(a) The whole Company of Boys.
(b) Just Rachel.
(c) Gil and Rachel.
(d) Just Arby.

13. Where is Nat in Chapter 17?
(a) In Stratford on Avon, 1599.
(b) In Guy's Hospital, 1999.
(c) In Guy's Hospital, 1989.
(d) In the Globe Theater, 1989.

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

15. Why does a day laborer flash a sign to ward evil at Nat?
(a) The laborer mistook Nat for someone else.
(b) The laborer thinks Nat is a witch.
(c) The laborer thinks Shakespeare is a warlock.
(d) The laborer does that for good luck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is Gilbourne's wig?

2. What does Shakespeare say about the show to Burbage and Nat?

3. About what does Nat tell Gil from his time with Shakespeare?

4. What does Rachel notice as she hugs Nat?

5. What does Arby recite from memory?

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