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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 say about Caliban's distorted looks?
(a) That they are not his fault.
(b) That they parallel the ugliness of the other men's actions.
(c) That his manners are equally as distorted.
(d) That they are not his true visage.

2. Why do Trinculo and Stephano threaten to beat Caliban?
(a) They believe he is lying to them about the island spirit.
(b) They think he will back out of their plan to murder Prospero.
(c) They believe he lost their bottles of wine.
(d) They think he is leading them in circles.

3. What story does Prospero tell Alonso, Gonzalo, Sebastian and Antonio?
(a) The story of how Ferdinand and Miranda met.
(b) The story about the island.
(c) The story about how he learned magic.
(d) The story of Caliban's witch mother, Sycorax.

4. What does Prospero order Ariel to do when Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban run off?
(a) To follow them with the imagined hunting dogs.
(b) To make a deal with them so that they do not kill Prospero.
(c) To run them off a cliff.
(d) To kill the three when he catches them.

5. What are Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban arguing about in their drunken stupor?
(a) How they will kill Prospero.
(b) Whether or not they have been fooled by the island spirit.
(c) Where the ship has gone.
(d) Which one of them will marry Miranda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the other men, following the drunken scene with Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban?

2. By the beginning of Act III, Scene II, what is the state of Caliban, Trinculo and Stephano?

3. What does Prospero tell the spirits to do?

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

5. At the beginning of Act IV, Scene I, what does Prospero tell Ferdinand?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. How does Caliban reveal his humane side in Act III, Scene II?

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

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

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

7. In Act V, Scene I, what is a clue that Antonio and Sebastian are not as repentant of their past misdeeds as Alonso?

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

9. 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?

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

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