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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nat become uncomfortable with the group's conversation?
(a) It comes out that his parents are dead.
(b) They talk about the South in a derogatory manner.
(c) They say unkind things about Rachel.
(d) They say unkind things about Arby.

2. What puts Nat at ease where he is staying?
(a) They allow him to do anything.
(b) No one inquires about his parents.
(c) The barracks are not well supervised.
(d) There is a boy his age with whom Nat immediately bonds.

3. What character does Nat play in one of the plays?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Puck.
(c) Othello.
(d) King Lear.

4. Where is the setting at the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) New York.
(b) London.
(c) Boston.
(d) Cambridge.

5. What is the date of the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1699.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1799.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Arby say the boy actors must function?

2. How does Gil Warmun carry himself on stage?

3. Why does Arby make the boys play the games?

4. What does Nat hear as he is going to practice on his first day?

5. Whose voice sounds somewhat like Elizabethan English?

(see the answer key)

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