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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Arby explain to Nat?
(a) Nothing.
(b) That Shakespeare died centuries ago.
(c) That Nat is not the boss of the Company of Boys.
(d) That time does not always travel in a straight line.

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

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

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

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

6. Who does Nat think is a stronger presence on stage than Shakespeare?
(a) Gil.
(b) Burbage.
(c) Sam.
(d) No one.

7. What does Aunt Jen do when she sees Nat?
(a) Nothing as she is not there.
(b) Tousles Nat's hair.
(c) Laughs.
(d) Cries.

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

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

10. Where does the Queen ask the company to perform in a month's time?
(a) Essex.
(b) Wales.
(c) Greenwich.
(d) Buckingham.

11. What does Arby say was a task he was given?
(a) To be a substitute father to Nat.
(b) To save Shakespeare.
(c) To make Nat famous.
(d) To teach the boys good acting skills.

12. What does Arby recite from memory?
(a) Lines from Hamlet that were edited out before the final cut.
(b) The Shakespeare sonnet Nat was given.
(c) The Prologue to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(d) Lines from Puck's character.

13. What does Nat worry about as far as St. Paul's school is concerned?
(a) That he'll return there and no one will recognize him.
(b) That the school will cease to exist if Nat creates a paradox.
(c) That he will take the plague to the school.
(d) That the school will reopen before Nat gets back to his time.

14. What does Nat ask if he can do when he graduates St. Paul's?
(a) Become a squire.
(b) Become a page.
(c) Join the actor's company.
(d) Be Shakespeare's secretary.

15. Who visits Nat at the Fisher's home?
(a) Just Arby.
(b) Gil and Rachel.
(c) Just Rachel.
(d) The whole Company of Boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What offer does Nat decline?

2. What does the audience yell at Nat as he is playing Puck?

3. What part does Sam Gilbourne play?

4. Upon whose behalf does Burbage plead mercy?

5. Who is Jennifer Field?

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