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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. How does Nat feel onstage?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Happy.
(c) Confident.
(d) Nervous.

2. Why is Shakespeare nervous as he dresses himself in Chapter 13?
(a) He is not nervous, just dressing more carefully.
(b) It is the day that the Queen is to attend the Globe.
(c) Nat has to go back to St. Paul's the next day.
(d) He has an audience with the King.

3. What do Gil and Rachel realize is a result of the swap of the two Nats?
(a) Nat can act just as Shakespeare directed him.
(b) Nat can become a Shakespeare expert.
(c) Shakespeare does not contract the plague and die.
(d) There's more information about that time.

4. What play does Shakespeare write after his brief encounter with Nat?
(a) "Hamlet".
(b) "The Tempest'.
(c) "As You Like It".
(d) "All's Well that Ends Well".

5. What does Shakespeare say Nat must do about St. Paul's?
(a) Leave the school.
(b) Start a theater group there.
(c) Return there.
(d) Ask St. Paul's to teach students more about politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why might someone try to harm the Queen at the play?

2. Why is the Nat of the modern era sad?

3. What was needed for someone to travel back to Shakespeare's time?

4. What does Arby say was a task he was given?

5. Who is Sam Gilbourne dressed to resemble?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Nat, Burbage and Shakespeare's interview with Queen Elizabeth I.

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

3. What do Nat, Gil and Rachel learn about the Nat Field of 1599?

4. What do Nat and his aunt Jen decide to do?

5. What intrigues Nurse Stevens about the Nat she is caring for in the isolation unit?

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

7. How does Nat please Sam Gilbourne?

8. What does Harry explain to Nat about the political climate of that time?

9. Describe Nat's dream that he has in Chapter 16.

10. What secret does Arby reveal to Nat?

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