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

2. About what does Nat yearn to tell the group?
(a) His younger sister's acting.
(b) His parents' deaths.
(c) The advancements of the 20th century.
(d) The dangers of dirt.

3. What does Aunt Jen do when she sees Nat?
(a) Tousles Nat's hair.
(b) Cries.
(c) Nothing as she is not there.
(d) Laughs.

4. What does Arby explain to Nat?
(a) That Shakespeare died centuries ago.
(b) That Nat is not the boss of the Company of Boys.
(c) That time does not always travel in a straight line.
(d) Nothing.

5. What does Nat decide to immerse himself in instead of worrying?
(a) Finding a way to make Roper less hostile.
(b) Finding a way back to his own time.
(c) Rehearsing "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
(d) Learning all he can from Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Nat feel about Shakespeare when the man is on the stage?

3. Who visits Nat at the Fisher's home?

4. Why is the earlier era Nat kept isolated in the hospital for a week?

5. What offer does Nat decline?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What dos Arby give Nat and what does Nat discover is Arby's full name?

4. In Chapter 12, who arrives at Guy's Hospital and what does the person learn?

5. How does Richard help Nat prepare for Nat's role as Puck and how does Nat feel when he is ready?

6. What secret does Arby reveal to Nat?

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

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

9. Why does Nat argue with Arby about Nat's exit and what does Nat do?

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

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