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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Alonso recognize Trinculo and Stephano as?
2. Who are "the rabble"?
3. Prospero distracts the three men from their plan of revenge; who distracts Prospero from his?
4. What does Prospero order Ariel to do when Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban run off?
5. Who listens in on Caliban's and Stephano's conversation?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the tempest and how it is developed metaphorically throughout the play and eventually ended.
2. What is the significance of Stephano and Trinculo dressing up in the ostentatious clothing Prospero lays out for them?
3. 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?
4. How does Caliban reveal his humane side in Act III, Scene II?
5. What spirits does Prospero summon for the magical performance when he sees Ferdinand getting too close to Miranda?
6. Why does Prospero conjure the banquet for Antonio, Alonso, Sebastian and Gonzalo?
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. In Act V, Scene I, why does Prospero whisper to Antonio and Sebastian that he knows of their plans to kill Alonso?
9. Who does Prospero refer to as "the rabble" prior to the magical performance with the dancing spirits?
10. What does Prospero do following his revelation about the futility of revenge and his self realization?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Although the metaphor of a tempest suggests an unnatural upheaval in nature that then returns the environment back to normal, is this the case in the play? Do things return to normal by the play's end? Is there more ambiguity than the idea of a tempest suggests? Why, or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Symbolically, what does the scene involving Caliban, Trinculo, Stephano and the gaudy clothing mean? When Trinculo and Stephano put the clothes on, what and who do they represent?
Essay Topic 3
What is the purpose of the musical scenes in The Tempest? What do they do for the plot? The characters? The audience? Cite examples from the play and bear in mind Shakespeare's contemporary period.
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