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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 say is the heart of his “secret project” (141)?

2. What did Felix do when he was bored and needed company, when he was living in the hovel?

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

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

5. What does Felix do once he stops fantasizing about revenge against Tony?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Felix’ relationship with his daughter’s memory like?

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

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

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

6. What do the inmates think about Caliban, and what problem does this cause for Felix?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the audience for Hag-Seed? What is the ideal reader for Hag-Seed likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

Essay Topic 2

Where were you most engaged with Hag-Seed? Where were you most liable to distraction or least engaged? How did Atwood construct her book in a way that would keep you interested and curious about how events would play out?

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of marriage in Hag-Seed? What work do marriages accomplish? What do characters need them to accomplish? What makes a good marriage, according to this novel?

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