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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nat find comforting even in the heat of an argument?
(a) Sleep.
(b) The sound of stage directions from Arby.
(c) Harry's guidance.
(d) Shakespeare's voice.

2. Who is Harry?
(a) Nat's father.
(b) The young boy who greets Nat when Nat awakens.
(c) Nat's best friend in the United States.
(d) Nat's understudy.

3. Who does Arby kick out of the company?
(a) A boy who is too young to be there.
(b) No one.
(c) A boy who plays a trick on Nat.
(d) A boy who refuses to play the games.

4. Of what does the Company of Boys comprise?
(a) The actors, theater crew, rehearsal staff and costume maker.
(b) The rehearsal staff and the board of trustees.
(c) The actors and rehearsal staff.
(d) The actors.

5. Who does Richard Burbage resemble in Nat's mind?
(a) Arby.
(b) Nat's father.
(c) Gil.
(d) Nat's grandfather.

6. What play is Shakespeare thinking of writing?
(a) As You Like It.
(b) The Tempest.
(c) All's Well that Ends Well.
(d) Hamlet.

7. What do the apprentices eat for lunch?
(a) Bread and jam.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Meat pies and beer.
(d) Bread and cheese.

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

9. What do the nurses fail to notice about Nat?
(a) That he looks and sounds different from other boys his age.
(b) That he has a different eye color than the boy brought in.
(c) That he is speaking French.
(d) That he is using vocabularly that is not used in the late 20th century.

10. What does Nat fight as the days go by?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Panic.
(c) Illnesses.
(d) Bad pranks from Harry.

11. Of what does Nat dream?
(a) Flying high above Earth.
(b) His parents.
(c) His dead dog.
(d) His dead brother.

12. Who is quite animated when acting?
(a) Nat.
(b) Gil.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Eric.

13. How does Nat save Roper's life?
(a) Using the Heimlich maneuver.
(b) Giving him antibiotics for the plague.
(c) Cutting a rope that Roper became entangled in.
(d) Pulling him away from a deranged man with a knife.

14. What does Nat think is similar to the Globe Theater of 1999?
(a) Carneige Hall.
(b) The old playhouse in Maine where he did summer stock.
(c) The Globe of 1599.
(d) Nothing that he knows.

15. Who denies any wrongdoing?
(a) Roper.
(b) Nat.
(c) Gilbourne.
(d) Harry.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what skills does Arby particularly admire Nat?

2. With whom does Nat live?

3. What does Gilbourne urge the apprentices to do?

4. What does Arby point out to Nat?

5. Why does Nat not allow himself to cry?

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