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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why might someone try to harm the Queen at the play?
(a) She is heirless.
(b) She just passed some very restrictive laws.
(c) She is a tyrant.
(d) She just executed several popular people.

2. What offer does Nat decline?
(a) To accompany Burbage to his country estate.
(b) To live with Shakespeare full time.
(c) To be a page in the Queen's court.
(d) To play Hamlet when Shakespeare finishes it.

3. How did it work that the two Nats were not discovered as being the wrong boys?
(a) In the process of the swap, the powers that made the swap changed their looks.
(b) The boys were basically identical.
(c) Nat has no idea how he was not discovered.
(d) They were both isolated from their regular contacts.

4. What character will Nat play next summer with the Company of Boys?
(a) Lysander.
(b) Puck.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Ariel.

5. Who compliments Burbage for his costume?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Nat.
(c) A nameless Lord.
(d) The Queen.

6. What happens when Nat rises higher and higher in his dream?
(a) He escapes the tower.
(b) He falls out of the tower and flies away.
(c) He rises with his mother's spirit.
(d) He is free from his father's grasp.

7. Where is Nat in the dream he has?
(a) He is a child playing with his father.
(b) He is back in Tudor England.
(c) He is in the tower with Burbage.
(d) He is with his mother before she died.

8. What does Rachel notice as she hugs Nat?
(a) A green leaf painted on Nat's neck.
(b) He is much thinner.
(c) A poem sticking out of Nat's pocket.
(d) An old gold coin on the table with Queen Elizabeth I's picture on it.

9. Who is Jennifer Field?
(a) Nat's oldest sister.
(b) Nat's next-door neighbor.
(c) Nat's mother.
(d) Nat's aunt.

10. What does Nat hope will happen as he returns to St. Paul's?
(a) No one will realize Nat is not Nat Field.
(b) Something mysterious will happen.
(c) He will be recognized as a talented actor.
(d) He will not be allowed to return to St. Paul's.

11. What fascinates everyone in the acting company?
(a) How Nat can suggest the right things to do for someone's illness.
(b) Some of Nat's vocabulary.
(c) Nat saving Roper's life.
(d) Nat's acrobatic moves.

12. How does Nat leave the hospital?
(a) Walking slowly.
(b) In a wheelchair.
(c) He cannot leave yet.
(d) On a gurney.

13. How does Nat feel onstage?
(a) Confident.
(b) Happy.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Nervous.

14. How does Nat perceive the Queen's way of talking?
(a) As disjointed.
(b) As thoughtless.
(c) As condescending.
(d) As flirtatious.

15. How many books mention the earlier Nat Field?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shakespeare say Nat must do about St. Paul's?

2. Who is Richard Babage?

3. What does Nat worry about as far as St. Paul's school is concerned?

4. What particularly disgusts Nat about the Queen?

5. What part does Sam Gilbourne play?

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