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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. When Felix shows the inmates a video to introduce them to Anne-Marie, what is Anne-Marie doing in the video?

2. How does Felix characterize the prison employees’ opinions about how damaged the prisoners are?

3. How many additional courses has Felix spun off from his original course?

4. How many of the inmates want to play Caliban?

5. What does Felix say would complete his humiliation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did Miranda’s death have on Felix?

2. What is the prison like for Felix, and what kind of arrangements have been made for his security?

3. What is Felix’ relationship with his actors like, in the Fletcher Correctional Players?

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

5. How does Felix get the men to want to play Ariel?

6. What are the productions like, that Felix stages at the Fletcher County Correctional Institute?

7. How is Tony Price doing, in the first five years of Felix’ exile to the shanty?

8. How has Felix expanded his course offering into four courses at Fletcher County Correctional Institute?

9. How did Felix approach Anne-Marie about playing Miranda?

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

When is Hag-Seed most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

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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