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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 Miranda impulsively do in Act III, Scene I?
(a) Kisses Ferdinand.
(b) Tells Ferdinand her name.
(c) Tells Ferdinand to run away.
(d) Tells Ferdinand the secrets of the island.

2. In his soliloquy, what does Ferdinand say makes his job easier?
(a) Prospero's kindness.
(b) Thoughts of Miranda.
(c) The nice weather.
(d) His natural strength.

3. What does Trinculo wonder about Caliban after listening to his drunken speech?
(a) How he could have been afraid of someone so weak.
(b) How quickly Caliban became drunk.
(c) How Caliban came to look the way he does.
(d) Why Caliban is on the island.

4. At the end of Act II, Scene II, what is Caliban doing?
(a) Singing happily.
(b) Cursing Stephano and Trinculo.
(c) Crying.
(d) Building a fire.

5. What is the strange noise that Gonzalo claims he heard?
(a) Alonso talking in his sleep.
(b) Twigs breaking.
(c) Ariel's singing.
(d) Antonio's and Sebastian's whispering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caliban beg of Stephano when he first meets him?

2. What does Miranda offer to Ferdinand while he is working?

3. Ariel lets the other ships return to Naples in order to

4. What does Prospero think about Ferdinand's and Miranda's attraction to each other?

5. What is one way in which Ferdinand's life differs from Miranda's?

Short Essay Questions

1. During the storm, what can the audience already infer about Gonzalo's character and why?

2. How does Caliban parallel some of Prospero's characteristics in Act II, Scene II?

3. What does Ariel do when Antonio and Sebastian draw their swords and why?

4. How are Miranda and Ferdinand different, but also the same?

5. Why does Prospero render Ferdinand immobile during Act I, Scene II?

6. Alonso helped Antonio usurp Prospero's throne. Why does Prospero have Ariel lull him to sleep? What does this scene say about Alonso's character?

7. In Act III, Scene I, Ferdinand recites a soliloquy as he stacks wood. What does he talk about?

8. What is the intention of Prospero's plan when he has Ariel lead Ferdinand to Miranda?

9. What is the reason Prospero gives for Miranda's attraction to Ferdinand?

10. How does Antonio persuade Sebastian to go along with the plan to assassinate Alonso and take over Naples?

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