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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 a day laborer flash a sign to ward evil at Nat?
(a) The laborer thinks Nat is a witch.
(b) The laborer mistook Nat for someone else.
(c) The laborer thinks Shakespeare is a warlock.
(d) The laborer does that for good luck.

2. What does Nat worry about as far as St. Paul's school is concerned?
(a) That he will take the plague to the school.
(b) That he'll return there and no one will recognize him.
(c) That the school will cease to exist if Nat creates a paradox.
(d) That the school will reopen before Nat gets back to his time.

3. What does Nat remember from his history lesson about the Earl of Essex?
(a) The Queen had the Earl executed.
(b) The Earl died of the plague.
(c) The Earl adopted a son from the theater.
(d) Nothing.

4. What kind of mood is Arby in when Nat arrives?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Irritable.
(c) Jocular.
(d) Mean.

5. Who visits Nat at the Fisher's home?
(a) Gil and Rachel.
(b) The whole Company of Boys.
(c) Just Arby.
(d) Just Rachel.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Sam Gilbourne ask Nat?

2. What is the other book Arby gives Nat?

3. Of what acting group did the earlier Nat Field join?

4. What is one book Arby gives Nat?

5. Who is Jennifer Field?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Gil and Rachel respond to Nat's story about his time in 1599?

2. What unexpected thing happens as Nat is acting and what is the outcome?

3. What does Nat ask Shakespeare about Nat's choices after St. Paul's and what is Shakespeare's response?

4. Where does Nat awaken in Chapter 17 and what does he find out?

5. What interests the company about Nat and Roper and how does Nick Tooley put Nat into an awkward position?

6. What is the audience's response to Sam's entrance onstage?

7. How does Nat please Sam Gilbourne?

8. What does Nat think is the reason he and the other Nat were not discovered to be impostors?

9. How do Gil and Rachel believe Nat Field of 1999 saved Shakespeare's life?

10. What does Shakespeare tell Nat about soldiers in the theater and what happens with that situation?

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