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

2. Who does Prospero feel betrayed by in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Sebastian.
(b) Antonio.
(c) Alonso.
(d) Caliban.

3. In Act V, Scene I, who do Sebastian and Antonio make jokes about after Ariel brings everyone back?
(a) Caliban.
(b) Trinculo.
(c) Ariel.
(d) Stephano.

4. Why is Gonzalo's comments about the dancing nymphs important during the banquet scene?
(a) They show that Gonzalo is capable of lust.
(b) They illuminate characteristics about the dancing nymphs.
(c) They illuminate the contrasting characteristics of Antonio and Sebastian.
(d) They help introduce new characters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances will Prospero curse Ferdinand's and Miranda's marriage?

2. What does Prospero tease Stephano about at the end of the play?

3. Who listens in on Caliban's and Stephano's conversation?

4. In speaking to Stephano, what does Caliban describe as very important?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What spirits does Prospero summon for the magical performance when he sees Ferdinand getting too close to Miranda?

2. Describe the tempest and how it is developed metaphorically throughout the play and eventually ended.

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

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

5. How does Ariel meddle with the Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban trio in Scene II of Act III?

6. In Prospero's final speech at the play's end, what is the significance of his contemplation of his death? How does it link to his now ended revenge?

7. Why does Prospero, in Act IV, Scene I, decide to torment Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban rather than continue his revenge on Antonio?

8. 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?

9. How does a tempest begin with the Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban subplot?

10. What is Stephano's ulterior motive in the plan to murder Prospero?

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