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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stephano admit to Prospero at the end of the play?
(a) That he still wants to be king.
(b) That he would have made a poor king.
(c) That he was not really going to kill him.
(d) That it was his idea to kill him.

2. Who provides music and sings along with Stephano and Trinculo?
(a) Prospero.
(b) Miranda.
(c) Nymphs.
(d) Ariel.

3. What does Prospero comment on in regard to Alonso and Antonio?
(a) Their cruelty.
(b) Their kindness.
(c) Their stupidity.
(d) Their penitence.

4. How does Ariel appear to the men during the banquet?
(a) Dressed like Prospero.
(b) In a monstrous disguise.
(c) Dressed like a nymph.
(d) As himself.

5. Who accuses Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian of being the men of sin?
(a) Gonzalo.
(b) Ariel.
(c) Prospero.
(d) The dancing spirits.

6. Who are "the rabble"?
(a) Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian.
(b) Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban.
(c) Ariel, Prospero and Miranda.
(d) Gonzalo, Miranda and Ferdinand.

7. In his soliloquy in Act IV, Scene I, what does Prospero insinuate a personal connection to?
(a) Spirits.
(b) Nature.
(c) Miranda.
(d) Ariel.

8. What does Prospero say to Antonio and Sebastian on the side?
(a) That he does not really forgive them.
(b) That he will kill them if they kill Alonso.
(c) That he knows about their assassination plan.
(d) That they are evil people.

9. By the beginning of Act III, Scene II, what is the state of Caliban, Trinculo and Stephano?
(a) Sick.
(b) Elated.
(c) Mad.
(d) Drunk.

10. In the false banquet scene, Gonzalo catches on to Antonio's and Sebastian's plan but identifies the wrong motivation for it. What does he believe their motivation to be?
(a) Guilt for past deeds.
(b) Desire for power.
(c) Desire for blood.
(d) Lust for Miranda.

11. Why does Prospero want the men to see a banquet and then have it taken away?
(a) To exert his own power over them.
(b) So that they will starve.
(c) To show them that their power is fleeting.
(d) To allow Ariel to feel what power is like.

12. What does Prospero tease Stephano about at the end of the play?
(a) The gaudy apparel he has on.
(b) His partnership with Caliban.
(c) How easy it was to fool him.
(d) Wanting to be king.

13. Who does Caliban talk about at length to Stephano?
(a) Ariel.
(b) Prospero.
(c) Miranda.
(d) Trinculo.

14. Which character says: "We are such stuff/As dreams are made on"?
(a) Prospero.
(b) Gonzalo.
(c) Ariel.
(d) Miranda.

15. What motif does the scene between Caliban, Trinculo and Stephano and their assassination plan reflect?
(a) The Ariel motif.
(b) The conspiracy motif.
(c) The tempest motif.
(d) The magic motif.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pretends to be Trinculo and interrupts Stephano's and Caliban's conversation?

2. Who does Prospero feel betrayed by in Act IV, Scene I?

3. What does Alonso wonder about when he sees that Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban are intoxicated?

4. What does Alonso do when Prospero reveals Ferdinand and Miranda to him?

5. Who does Alonso recognize Trinculo and Stephano as?

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