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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. How does Ariel appear to the men during the banquet?
(a) Dressed like a nymph.
(b) As himself.
(c) In a monstrous disguise.
(d) Dressed like Prospero.

2. What does Alonso wonder about when he sees that Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban are intoxicated?
(a) When their intoxication will wear off.
(b) If their intoxication came from something they ate on the island.
(c) If Prospero made them drunk.
(d) Where they procured the wine.

3. Why does Prospero conjure the spirits to dance for Ferdinand and Miranda?
(a) He wanted to display his power to Ferdinand.
(b) He wanted to surprise them with an early wedding gift.
(c) He saw Ferdinand getting too close to Miranda.
(d) He was bored and wanted the entertainment.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caliban curse himself for foolishly believing?

2. Why do Trinculo and Stephano threaten to beat Caliban?

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

4. What does Prospero comment on in regard to Antonio and Sebastian?

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the tempest created by Caliban, Trinculo and Stephano come to an end after they put on the gaudy clothes?

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

4. After Ariel tells Prospero where Antonio, Alonso, and Sebastian are, what causes Prospero to realize that it is not revenge he wants, but penitence?

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

6. Following the magical performance with dancing spirits, Prospero recites one of two famous soliloquies. What does he speak of in the soliloquy and who does he parallel with this soliloquy?

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

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

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

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

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