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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 is the phrase “scurvy monster” the password for?

2. What does SnakeEye do to close Felix’ throat with emotion?

3. Why does Red Coyote say that Caliban should be First Nations?

4. What does Felix say is the last prison, which the men had not identified yet?

5. What does Felix buy on his second shopping trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does SnakeEye do to inspire a fit of resentment in Felix?

2. What metaphor does Tony use, to describe his relationship with Sal O’Nally?

3. What does Felix tell the ministers—and the other inmates and officials in the prison—in order to camouflage his play within a play?

4. What arrangements does Felix make with 8Handz?

5. What is the news Estelle has to meet Felix suddenly, to tell him?

6. How does Felix frame Tony and Sebert?

7. What does Felix say is the ninth prison, which the actors had not identified?

8. What does Felix tell Sal and Tony when he appears to them as himself?

9. What happens to Felix when he goes on the cruise?

10. Why is Felix not finished with his work, when he is driving away from the Fletcher County Correctional Institute after the play?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Miranda reminds Felix that the rarer art is in forgiveness than revenge. In what way does Hag-Seed practice forgiveness? In what way does it practice revenge? Does Felix treat those terms as simple, in his planning, or does he complicate the meaning of those terms?

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of women in Hag-Seed? What are the dominant ideas about femininity, who holds them, and how are they acted out? Who resists those ideas, and how do they resist them effectively?

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