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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years into his exile has Felix gone, when he takes the job at the Fletcher County Correctional Institute?

2. When does Felix tell the inmates he will reveal the last of the prisons in the Tempest?

3. What does Felix refer to as the “dead husk of his drowned self” (63)?

4. What does Felix say has been his trademark as a director?

5. How did Felix try to imagine Maude, Bert and their children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of suspense is created in the opening scene?

2. What causes Felix to change his plan from Henry V to the Tempest?

3. How is Felix let go from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

4. What is Tony Price’s role in Hag-Seed?

5. What problems do the players have with the idea of doing the Tempest?

6. What does Felix do to his identity when he rents the shanty?

7. What does Felix bring with him to remember his daughter?

8. What did Felix occupy his time with, after he moved away from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

9. Where does Felix end up after leaving the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival?

10. How does Felix defend Prospero against the inmates’ distrust?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of imagination in Hag-Seed? What does imagination do for the characters who exercise it? What are the advantages and disadvantages of imagination?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate your own reading of Hag-Seed—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 3

What are the advantages and disadvantages of including so much back story, with Felix being fired from the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival? How does Atwood use this history to establish her characters? What are the dangers of traveling back in time so far, from the present moment where most of the novel’s action takes place? Does Atwood pull it off effectively?

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