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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the setting at the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) London.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

2. What is Shakespeare's company's name?
(a) Globe Actors.
(b) Lord Chamberlain's Men.
(c) Lord Chamberlain's Actors.
(d) Lord Winpole's Men.

3. What does Nat think is similar to the Globe Theater of 1999?
(a) The old playhouse in Maine where he did summer stock.
(b) Carneige Hall.
(c) The Globe of 1599.
(d) Nothing that he knows.

4. What does Shakespeare change about how Nat learned his part in the United States in a later era?
(a) Some lines.
(b) Stage exit.
(c) Where Nat says his lines.
(d) How Nat walks.

5. How does Nat save Roper's life?
(a) Using the Heimlich maneuver.
(b) Giving him antibiotics for the plague.
(c) Cutting a rope that Roper became entangled in.
(d) Pulling him away from a deranged man with a knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Arby?

2. What does Nurse Stevens do that calms Nat to sleep?

3. Who does Arby kick out of the company?

4. What is one of the plays being rehearsed?

5. What does Nat fight as the days go by?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Roper suggest the boys do and what does Nat feel he must go?

2. How does Nat feel about being in the late 16th century and how does Roper make it even worse?

3. How does Nat make things good between himself and Roper?

4. How do Arby and Gill have a small confrontation and what is the result?

5. How does Nat increase his acting skills, in particular playing the character of Puck?

6. What does Nat learn about an upcoming visit from the Queen and what does he have to do regarding the news?

7. What happens with Nat in Chapter 3?

8. What does Arby forbid the boys to do and how does Nat react to Arby's guidance?

9. What happens to make Nat feel uncomfortable with his fellow actors?

10. What is happening to the Nat that is transported to 1999?

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