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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Caliban ask Stephano to do?
(a) Kill Trinculo.
(b) Kill Prospero.
(c) Take him with him off of the island.
(d) Help kidnap Miranda.

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

3. Who does Ariel bring back at Prospero's request?
(a) Trinculo.
(b) The Boatswain.
(c) Stepahno.
(d) Caliban.

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

5. When Trinculo and Stephano wonder where the music is coming from, what is Caliban's reasoning?
(a) Singing causes nymphs to play their instruments.
(b) That the island is magical.
(c) They are simply imagining it.
(d) It is coming from a nearby island.

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

7. What is the parallel to Trinculo and Stephano dressing up in borrowed clothes?
(a) Ariel borrowing Prospero's magical powers.
(b) Antonio's and Sebastian's borrowed power.
(c) Caliban borrowing the men's wine.
(d) Prospero's borrowing of Ferdinand.

8. What does the banquet scene reveal about Alonso, Sebastian and Antonio?
(a) That Alonso feels guilt for what he did, while the other two do not.
(b) That Antonio and Sebastian feel guilt for what they did, while Alonso does not.
(c) That the men are easily fooled.
(d) That Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian do not feel guilt for what they did.

9. At the beginning of Act IV, Scene I, what does Prospero tell Ferdinand?
(a) The trials he has endured were tests of love.
(b) He will teach him magic from his books.
(c) He has more chores for him to do.
(d) He will never be allowed to marry Miranda.

10. What does Prospero order Ariel to fetch when he is ready to reveal his identity to the men?
(a) His old clothes from Milan.
(b) His magic book.
(c) His magical staff.
(d) Miranda and Ferdnand.

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

12. What does Prospero comment on in regard to Gonzalo?
(a) His honor.
(b) His meekness.
(c) His courage.
(d) His intelligence.

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

14. What does Prospero ask in his soliloquy at the play's end?
(a) For a moment of silence to reflect.
(b) To leave the island.
(c) To be left alone.
(d) For the audience's applause.

15. What distracts Trinculo and Stephano from their original plan?
(a) Caliban's distorted visage.
(b) The clothes Prospero set out, which they try on.
(c) Their fear of the island spirit Caliban spoke of.
(d) The mysterious sounds in the forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act V, Scene I, who do Sebastian and Antonio make jokes about after Ariel brings everyone back?

2. Who else does Prospero ask Ariel to bring back in Act V, Scene I?

3. Why do Sebastian and Antonio vow to help Alonso find Ferdinand following the banquet?

4. Why does Prospero abruptly stop the marriage ceremony and change his mood?

5. 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?

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