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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 puts Nat at ease where he is staying?
(a) No one inquires about his parents.
(b) The barracks are not well supervised.
(c) They allow him to do anything.
(d) There is a boy his age with whom Nat immediately bonds.

2. What does Nat hear as he is going to practice on his first day?
(a) Big Ben striking the hour.
(b) A wolf howling.
(c) The sound of horses clopping along.
(d) Distant music.

3. With what does the doctor on duty believe Nat suffers?
(a) Bubonic plague.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Measles.
(d) Cholera.

4. What class does Henry Condell teach?
(a) Costume.
(b) Elocution.
(c) Gesture.
(d) Tumbling.

5. Whose voice sounds somewhat like Elizabethan English?
(a) No one's.
(b) Gil's.
(c) Arby's.
(d) Nat's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Richard Burbage?

2. What is performed that afternoon at the Globe?

3. Where do some of the boys live when they are in London?

4. Who is Rachel?

5. How far is Shakespeare's home from the Globe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Shakespeare step in between Nat and Roper and what is the consequence of his doing so?

2. How does Nat react to the bear pit?

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

4. How does Roper conspire to make Nat look bad?

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

6. What happens to Nat at the beginning of the first day of rehearsals on the stage at Globe?

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

8. Where does Nat move in Chapter 10 and who shows him around?

9. How were the boys chosen for the Company of Boys?

10. How does Nat respond when Shakespeare calls the group a family and what does Shakespeare do?

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