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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 old was Algon when he died?
(a) 200 years.
(b) 5,000 years.
(c) 2,000 years.
(d) 500 years.

2. Who teases Puck about him having a part in the play?
(a) Robin Goodfellow.
(b) The Sandman.
(c) Peaseblossom.
(d) Auberon.

3. What gives Rainie bad dreams?
(a) Her masks.
(b) Hearing birds chirp.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Her reflection.

4. In "Façade", what does Death say people always hold onto?
(a) Deficiencies.
(b) The Past.
(c) Identities.
(d) Past loves.

5. What could Rainie smell in the tomb?
(a) Death.
(b) Power.
(c) Evil.
(d) Moisture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the fairy audience get to the play?

2. What is Rainie's power?

3. Who is Shakespeare's rival playwright?

4. Who forced Shakespeare to take his son along for the summer?

5. Who welcomes the fairy audience?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mulligan tell Rainie he looks like, and what does Rainie say in return?

2. What does Peaseblossom say when the character of Puck comes on the stage?

3. Why has the Sandman chosen to work with Shakespeare in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

4. What happens to Burbage at the beginning of the play?

5. What is Della's problem and why is she confiding in Rainie?

6. What does Hamnet complain about his father for?

7. In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", why does the Sandman tell the fairies that he has asked Shakespeare to write these plays?

8. What is Rainie's power, and what is the main weakness in it?

9. What does Puck decide to do as the fairies are leaving?

10. What happened to the payment the troupe got from Auberon, and how does Shakespeare explain this?

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