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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play does Shakespeare write after his brief encounter with Nat?
(a) "All's Well that Ends Well".
(b) "As You Like It".
(c) "Hamlet".
(d) "The Tempest'.

2. What does Shakespeare say to keep a secret from the teachers at St. Paul's?
(a) Nat's ten shillings.
(b) That Nat's father is dead.
(c) That Nat knows Shakespeare.
(d) That Nat declined an offer from the Queen.

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

4. What does Gil want to do after hearing Nat's story?
(a) Get Nat some counseling.
(b) Look in the history books to learn about the earlier Nat.
(c) Tell someone in the scientific community to try to get an explanation.
(d) Have Nat write down the sonnet Shakespeare wrote for Nat.

5. What does Shakespeare read to Nat?
(a) A sonnet.
(b) A letter from the Queen.
(c) A letter to his son Shakespeare wrote just before the son dies.
(d) Part of his new play called Hamlet.

6. What is Nat's impression of the Queen?
(a) She is not as beautiful as he expects.
(b) She is incredibly beautiful.
(c) She is cruel.
(d) She is very short.

7. What confuses Nat?
(a) The appearance of Harry.
(b) Waking up in different time zones for the second time in a week.
(c) All the machinery in the hospital.
(d) The accents of the nurses.

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

9. What does Nat try to figure out about his time in the earlier century?
(a) If he will ever go back there again.
(b) If it was a dream or really happened.
(c) Nothing; he is too disoriented to be thinking of anything at the moment.
(d) If he is the reincarnation of Nat Field.

10. Why is the earlier era Nat kept isolated in the hospital for a week?
(a) He has the hanta virus.
(b) He has a virulent strain of flu.
(c) He has smallpox.
(d) He has the bubonic plague which is extremely contagious.

11. What does Nat realize must have happened to him?
(a) He fell through a dimensional warp.
(b) He somehow switched places with the Nat Field of the earlier era.
(c) He had a hallucinogenic dream while very ill.
(d) His father must have helped him transport to the earlier era.

12. When do they think Nat will be released from the hospital?
(a) The next day after Jennifer arrives.
(b) In a few days.
(c) There is no telling.
(d) Several weeks.

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

14. What does the flag flying over the Globe indicate?
(a) The flag indicates that the theater is closed.
(b) It is flown to show the Globe's loyalty to the Queen.
(c) The flag indicates that the Duke of York is in attendance at the performance.
(d) There will be a performance that afternoon.

15. About what does Shakespeare congratulate Nat?
(a) His memorization of his lines.
(b) The way Nat makes Puck look non-human.
(c) His composure on stage.
(d) Nat's accent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harry say to Nat about Nat's reply to Nick's question?

2. Why does Arby say Shakespeare was sad?

3. How does Nat use St. Paul's as an excuse?

4. Who/What will be at the theater if the Queen is in attendance?

5. What seems to confound the Nat from the 16th century in his isolation room?

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