2. Who is Sam Gilbourne dressed to resemble?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) Anne Boleyn.
(c) Shakespeare's wife.
(d) Catherine of Aragon.

3. Why is the earlier era Nat kept isolated in the hospital for a week?
(a) He has the hanta virus.
(b) He has a virulent strain of flu.
(c) He has the bubonic plague which is extremely contagious.
(d) He has smallpox.

4. How does Nat leave the hospital?
(a) On a gurney.
(b) Walking slowly.
(c) In a wheelchair.
(d) He cannot leave yet.

5. What is one thing that worries Nat?
(a) Nat will have to return to his own time too soon.
(b) Roper will realize Nat is impersonating the other Nat.
(c) Harry will get picked up because of Nat.
(d) Shakespeare and Burbage are frightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character will Nat play next summer with the Company of Boys?

2. About what does Sam Gilbourne ask Nat?

3. What does Shakespeare read to Nat?

4. What does Nat compare when he is able to go back to rehearsals?

5. How did it work that the two Nats were not discovered as being the wrong boys?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Nat challenge Arby's authority?

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

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

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

5. What is Nat trying to figure out about himself and what are the other apprentices trying to figure out about Nat while they are celebrating at a tavern.

6. What is Nat trying to figure out about his experience over the past week and what does he decide about them?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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