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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. What does Felix tell his actors they become when they come to his class?

2. What does the imagined teenaged Miranda make Felix eat?

3. What part of Felix’ plan is he apprehensive about, after getting the men to warm to Ariel and Miranda?

4. What conclusion does Felix draw, about Prospero bathing on the island?

5. What is the range of ages among Felix’ inmates?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Anne-Marie doing in the video Felix shows the inmates, and what is their reaction?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How is Shakespeare’s the Tempest presented in Hag-Seed?

8. What are some of he insults Bent Pencil collects from the Tempest?

9. What is Felix’ policy on cursing during rehearsals?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What does the title of this novel mean, according to the definitions given to the term “Hag-Seed” in the book? Who would understand that title in different ways? What does the author accomplish, by giving the title so many resonances?

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