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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 cruelty.
(b) Their kindness.
(c) Their stupidity.
(d) Their penitence.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Prospero surprised at when Ariel tells him that Antonio, Alonso, Sebastian and Gonzalo are upset and remorseful?

2. At the end of Act IV, Scene I, what does Prospero promise to Ariel after asking him to pursue Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban?

3. In Act IV, Scene I, Prospero's speech mirrors that of which other character?

4. Who does Prospero feel betrayed by in Act IV, Scene I?

5. While discussing the plan with Caliban, what is Stephano's main objective?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Ariel instill remorse in some of the characters when he appears following the banquet?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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