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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 1, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Prospero tell the spirits to do?
(a) Distract Ferdinand while he speaks with Miranda.
(b) Lecture Ferdinand and Miranda about chastity.
(c) Teach Ferdinand and Miranda how to dance.
(d) Distract Ferdinand from seeing Alonso.

2. Why does Miranda urge Ferdinand not to work so hard?
(a) It upsets her seeing him like that.
(b) She wants him to spend time with her.
(c) He will hurt himself.
(d) He will overtire too soon.

3. Under what circumstances will Prospero curse Ferdinand's and Miranda's marriage?
(a) If Miranda has any communication with Caliban.
(b) If they have premarital sex.
(c) If Ferdinand thwarts Prospero's plan of revenge.
(d) If they try to elope.

4. What does Prospero think about Ferdinand's and Miranda's attraction to each other?
(a) That it is part of his grand plan.
(b) That it is foolish.
(c) That it will destroy his grand plan.
(d) That it is immoral.

5. What is one way in which Ferdinand's life differs from Miranda's?
(a) He is more educated than Miranda.
(b) He is not used to manual labor as much as she is.
(c) He understands what it means to be royalty, while she does not.
(d) He has encountered many women, while she has encountered few men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Prospero do at the end of Act III, Scene I?

2. In Act I, Scene II, what does Prospero promise Ariel yet again?

3. What does Prospero state in an aside about Ferdinand?

4. Why does Prospero conjure the spirits to dance for Ferdinand and Miranda?

5. Which character says: "We are such stuff/As dreams are made on"?

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