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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nat feel about Shakespeare when the man is on the stage?

2. What confuses Nat?

3. What is the other book Arby gives Nat?

4. About what does Nat yearn to tell the group?

5. Why does Arby say Shakespeare was sad?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret does Arby reveal to Nat?

2. What unexpected thing happens as Nat is acting and what is the outcome?

3. Describe Nat's dream that he has in Chapter 16.

4. How is Sam Gilbourne dressed for his role as Hippolyta?

5. What intrigues Nurse Stevens about the Nat she is caring for in the isolation unit?

6. Why does Nat challenge Arby's authority?

7. How do Gil and Rachel respond to Nat's story about his time in 1599?

8. How does Nat please Sam Gilbourne?

9. What does Shakespeare tell Nat about soldiers in the theater and what happens with that situation?

10. How do Gil and Rachel believe Nat Field of 1999 saved Shakespeare's life?

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