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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Prospero accused of?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Theft.
(c) Murder.
(d) Witchcraft.

2. What is Cesaire's play A Tempest based on?
(a) Twister.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Othello.
(d) The Tempest.

3. What body type is needed to play the tempest?
(a) Large.
(b) Obese.
(c) Scrawny.
(d) Small.

4. Why does Gonzalo scold Antonio in 1.1?
(a) He is optimistic.
(b) He is rude to the captain.
(c) He is flirting.
(d) He is pessimistic.

5. What does Prospero create in 1.2 to bring the men to island?
(a) A magic rope.
(b) A storm.
(c) An iceberg.
(d) A boat.

6. How does the boatswain act towards the passengers?
(a) Kindly.
(b) He ignores them.
(c) He bows to them.
(d) Rudely.

7. In 1.1, who tells the passengers on the ship to return to their cabin?
(a) The boatswain.
(b) The captain.
(c) The king.
(d) The queen.

8. What does Sebastian think of the island in 2.2?
(a) It is homey.
(b) It is beautiful.
(c) It is uncultivated.
(d) It smells.

9. What did Prospero promise Ariel?
(a) His daughter.
(b) Money.
(c) Freedom.
(d) A royal position.

10. What do Gonzalo, Alonso, and Antonio complain about among themselves in 1.1?
(a) The economy.
(b) The captain's manners.
(c) The lack of pillows on the ship.
(d) The boatswain's manners.

11. In 2.2, what does Gonzalo claim makes great fertilizer?
(a) Guano.
(b) Scraps of food.
(c) Hay seeds.
(d) Bear droppings.

12. What do Ariel and Caliban have different methods on?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Ruling.

13. Who, in the Prologue, says "it takes all kinds to make a world"?
(a) Ariel.
(b) The Master of Ceremonies.
(c) Stephano.
(d) Prospero.

14. At the start of 2.1, what is Caliban voicing his opinion about?
(a) The benefits of a vegetarian diet.
(b) The wrath of Shango.
(c) Greek mythology.
(d) Italian politics.

15. Who refuses to eat from the table in 2.2?
(a) Miranda.
(b) Gonzalo.
(c) Alonso.
(d) The King.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Caliban wish to be called by?

2. What is the title of Cesaire's first non-fiction book?

3. What does Cesaire think of the idea that poets make terrible politicians?

4. What was the occupation of Cesaire's father?

5. What does Caliban think about Ariel's ideas in 2.1?

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