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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 buy on his second shopping trip?

2. Why is Felix delighted to hear Estelle’s news?

3. How does Felix describe his belief that Miranda is alive with him?

4. What does Felix say the actual end-game of his play had been?

5. What does Felix have to do, to go on a cruise for free?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the Ariel team conclude about Ariel’s life after the Tempest?

3. What does Anne-Marie say in Miranda’s defense?

4. How do Freddie and Anne-Marie become close throughout the performance?

5. What is it like for Anne-Marie when Felix introduces her into the prison?

6. What does Felix say is Miranda’s role in the production?

7. How do Freddie and Miranda wrap up the play Felix has staged?

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

9. What is the surprise Leggs has for Felix?

10. How does Felix frame Tony and Sebert?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of grief in Hag-Seed? How do characters act, because of it? How do they purge it? What are characters like after they have grieved and purged their grief?

Essay Topic 2

What topics would you like to research further, after reading Hag-Seed? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Hag-Seed.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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