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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. What happens when Nat and the other boys are running to practice?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Nat is pushed down by an older boy.
(c) Nat loses his way.
(d) Nat stumbles.

2. Who offers to let Nat live with him?
(a) Burbage.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Shelton.
(d) No one.

3. Where is Nat lying semi-delirious in his real time?
(a) Guy's Hospital.
(b) He is not ill any longer.
(c) His room in a London orphanage.
(d) His room at the Fischer home.

4. Who does Arby kick out of the company?
(a) A boy who refuses to play the games.
(b) A boy who is too young to be there.
(c) No one.
(d) A boy who plays a trick on Nat.

5. What does Mistress Fawcett say about Shakespeare when he is working upstairs?
(a) Shakespeare is not to be disturbed.
(b) Shakespeare often makes strange noises and to ignore that.
(c) Shakespeare often buys flowers and tips her well.
(d) Shakespeare often has others come and join him upstairs and they are not to be disturbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nat realize about the bear?

2. Of what does Mistress Fawcett warn Nat?

3. Who is a leading actor in the Lord Chamberlain's Men?

4. How does Arby say the boy actors must function?

5. Who is Richard Burbage?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. With whom does Nat live in London and how does he feel about them?

3. What does Nat notice about Eric Sawyer and Gil Warmun as the two other boys are acting?

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

5. Why does Arby kick one of the boys out of the company?

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

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

8. What does Nat learn about the Globe Theater of 1599?

9. Where does Nat wake in the beginning of Chapter 4?

10. What happens to the Nat who is now in 1999?

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