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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who listens in on Caliban's and Stephano's conversation?
(a) Prospero.
(b) Ferdinand.
(c) Ariel.
(d) Trinculo.

3. Why does Prospero abruptly stop the marriage ceremony and change his mood?
(a) He is angered by the spirits.
(b) He remembers his plan for Antonio, Alonso and Sebastian.
(c) He remembers his plan for Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban.
(d) The spirits' message has no affect on Miranda and Ferdinand.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alonso believe, following the false banquet, that Ferdinand is dead?

2. What is the parallel to Trinculo and Stephano dressing up in borrowed clothes?

3. Who does Caliban talk about at length to Stephano?

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

5. Who accuses Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian of being the men of sin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Gonzalo's comment about the gentleness of the spirits at the banquet?

2. Do you think Prospero will actually give up his magic? He only talks of it, but does not actually do it. Why or why not?

3. What is the significance of Stephano and Trinculo dressing up in the ostentatious clothing Prospero lays out for them?

4. Who does Prospero refer to as "the rabble" prior to the magical performance with the dancing spirits?

5. In Prospero's soliloquy after the magical performance, what is the significance of his reference to the nature of being and the nature of life?

6. What does Prospero do following his revelation about the futility of revenge and his self realization?

7. How, or how not, is Prospero similar to Antonio in Act IV, Scene I?

8. How does Gonzalo's understanding about Antonio's and Sebastian's plan reveal a similarity between himself and Ferdinand and Miranda?

9. In Act V, Scene I, why does Prospero whisper to Antonio and Sebastian that he knows of their plans to kill Alonso?

10. Describe Prospero's journey that leads to his transformation at the end of the play.

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