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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 regret doing while talking to Ferdinand?
(a) Telling him her name.
(b) Not acting ladylike.
(c) Going against her father's wishes.
(d) Offering to help him.

2. What keeps Ferdinand going as he does Prospero's work?
(a) The possibility of being let go and leaving the island.
(b) His desire to prove that he is good at everything.
(c) His willingness to do anything for Miranda.
(d) The promise of being reunited with his father.

3. The tempest is a symbolic form of an upheaval from a state of
(a) Disgust.
(b) Peace.
(c) Nature.
(d) Harm.

4. Gonzalo's attempt to comfort his king are mocked by whom?
(a) Sebastian, Adrian and Alonso.
(b) Antonio, Sebastian and Alonso.
(c) Antonio, Adrian and Alonso.
(d) Antonio, Sebastian and Adrian

5. What does Miranda tell Ferdinand after he meets Prospero for the first time?
(a) Prospero is usually much kinder.
(b) Prospero wants to kill Ferdinand's father.
(c) Prospero is planning to kill him.
(d) Prospero wants them to marry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Antonio's treatment of Prospero when they were in Milan mirrors

2. What is one of Sebastian's reservations about Antonio's plan in Act II, Scene I?

3. What does Miranda do when Ferdinand confesses his love for her?

4. Prospero and Miranda were not killed when expelled from Milan because

5. Why does Stephano believe that Caliban and Trinculo are some sort of wild beasts when he sees them under the blanket?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Prospero make it difficult for Ferdinand to be with Miranda?

3. How do Ferdinand's and Miranda's positive qualities function in terms of the other characters?

4. How is Prospero similar to both Antonio and Gonzalo?

5. What is the tempest in Ariel's and Prospero's relationship?

6. What is Trinculo's plan for Caliban when he sees that he is actually a man?

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

8. How is Act I, Scene II with Miranda and Ferdinand a kind of exposition for the plot?

9. How does Act II, Scene I further character development for the audience?

10. What does the initial scene at sea foreshadow in the play?

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