View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Caliban doing in his cave at the start of 2.1?
(a) Singing.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Eating.
(d) Shouting.

2. What did Cesaire study in college?
(a) French.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Journalism.
(d) African history.

3. What does Alonso say in 2.2 is wrong with all of them?
(a) They should have brought a compas.
(b) They are not smart.
(c) They are tired and hungry.
(d) They did not pray the night before.

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

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

6. Who takes the table off the stage in 2.2?
(a) Monkeys.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Elves.
(d) Miranda.

7. What does Caliban think is better than humiliation in 2.1?
(a) Art.
(b) War.
(c) Money.
(d) Marriage.

8. What does Gonzalo see in the sky in 1.1?
(a) The sun.
(b) Lightening.
(c) A rainbow.
(d) A comet.

9. Which style is Cesaire considered a major voice of?
(a) Realism.
(b) Free-association.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Metaphor.

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

11. Which literary device does Cesaire use to fight for freedom?
(a) Limericks.
(b) Journalism.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Novels.

12. How are Ariel and Caliban related?
(a) Cousins twice removed.
(b) Brother and sister.
(c) Brothers in slavery.
(d) Sisters in slavery.

13. In the Prologue, what do the remaining people on stage do?
(a) Join the audience.
(b) Choose roles for themselves.
(c) Leave the stage.
(d) Form the chorus.

14. Who enters Caliban's cave at the start of 2.1?
(a) Prospero.
(b) Ariel.
(c) Miranda.
(d) Eshu.

15. What does Cesaire's writing focus on toward the end of his career?
(a) Art critism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Non-fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What title did Prospero once hold?

2. In 2.1, what does Ariel believe is left?

3. Who is Alonso worried about in 2.2?

4. What does Prospero come on stage with in 1.2?

5. In 1.1, who yells at Gonzalo, Alonso, and Antonio for their appearance?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 314 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample