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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 the woman at the beginning of "Façade" wish would kill her?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Her disease.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Her husband.

2. How does Peaseblossom describe Puck?
(a) Passionate and jealous.
(b) Loving and aggressive.
(c) Dangerous and psychotic.
(d) Strange and uncontrolled.

3. In "A Midsummer's Night Dream", where is the play to be performed?
(a) William's Meadow.
(b) Walton's Pond.
(c) Wendy's Hill.
(d) Wendel's Mound.

4. Who teases Puck about him having a part in the play?
(a) Peaseblossom.
(b) The Sandman.
(c) Robin Goodfellow.
(d) Auberon.

5. How did Shakespeare's rival playwright die?
(a) He had a venereal disease.
(b) He starved.
(c) He was murdered.
(d) He was hanged.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Rainie usually get her check?

2. In "Façade", what does Death say people always hold onto?

3. What kind of head does Skarrow have?

4. What color is the spirit Skarrow sits on?

5. What upsets Peaseblossom about the play in "A Midsummer's Night's Dream"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Rainie's only contacts with the outer world?

2. How does Burbage introduce himself to the Sandman?

3. What happened to the payment the troupe got from Auberon, and how does Shakespeare explain this?

4. Who was Algon and how did he die?

5. Why does Death say she came into Rainie's apartment?

6. What did Judith say Shakespeare would do if Hamnet died?

7. What do the young boys in the troupe do before the play begins?

8. What happens to Burbage at the beginning of the play?

9. What did Hamnet dream about after the play?

10. When did Death come into existence?

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