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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 Arby make the boys play the games?
(a) To see which ones are the leaders.
(b) As a means of asserting his control over the boys.
(c) To give them a break from serious work.
(d) To build trust and become acquainted.

2. Why does Nat run out of the bear pit?
(a) He hates seeing the bear get hurt.
(b) The blood triggers a membory.
(c) He does not run out.
(d) He hates seeing the dogs killed.

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

4. Who signals Nat and Harry incorrectly?
(a) Gilbourne.
(b) No one.
(c) Roper.
(d) Burbage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long will the Company of Boys rehearse in their current location?

2. What does Nat think of some of the games the boys play?

3. Why does the nameless Lord ask Shakespeare to cancel one of the performances at the Globe?

4. Why does Nat fall?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Arby point out to Nat in the first reading of one play?

4. What does Nat recite for his speaking class and who congratulates him after the recitation?

5. What happens with Nat in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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

10. What amazes Nat about London when he is on his way to the Globe?

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