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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. Why does Mrs. Fischer become worried?
(a) Nat has not returned there after rehearsal.
(b) Arby has told them about Nat's parents.
(c) Nat's fever worsens during the night.
(d) Gil is quite ill.

2. How can the boys afford to go to the bear pit?
(a) They can sneak in since Roper knows a way.
(b) Roper stole money from Harry.
(c) Roper stole money from Burbage.
(d) Their parents give him an allowance.

3. What does Nat notice about Harry's speech?
(a) Harry has a lisp.
(b) The words are difficult to understand.
(c) He does not know much of the vocabularly Harry uses.
(d) It sounds like a Southern accent from the United States.

4. Who is Harry?
(a) The young boy who greets Nat when Nat awakens.
(b) Nat's best friend in the United States.
(c) Nat's understudy.
(d) Nat's father.

5. What seems louder to Nat?
(a) The creak of the stage boards.
(b) The noise level of Elizabethan England.
(c) The sounds from the orchestra pit.
(d) The actors reading their lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Arby make the boys play the games?

2. Who is Richard Burbage?

3. Who quit the acting company in a dramatic fashion?

4. What does Nat realize about Roper?

5. What does Shakespeare change about how Nat learned his part in the United States in a later era?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Company of Boys doing in 1999 at the opening of the book?

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

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

4. How is Nat different from the other apprentices and to what do the apprentices attribute the differences?

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

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

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

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

9. What happens with Nat in Chapter 3?

10. What are some of the things that seem different to Nat when he wakes?

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