1. The Tempest is a play by English playwright William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone. The play contains music and songs that evoke the spirit of enchantment on the island. It explores many themes, including magic, betrayal, revenge, and family. In Which Act a wedding masque serves as a play-within-the play, and contributes spectacle, allegory, and elevated language ?
A:) Act I
B:) Act II
C:) Act III
D:) Act IV
springline- Correct option: D:) Act IV
2. The Tempest has been put to varied interpretations—from those that see it as a fable of art and creation, with Prospero representing Shakespeare, and Prospero's renunciation of magic signaling Shakespeare's farewell to the stage, to interpretations that consider it an allegory of Europeans colonizing foreign lands. Though The Tempest is listed in the First Folio as the first of Shakespeare's _____?
A:) Comedy
B:) Tragedy
C:) Allegory
D:) Romance
springline- Correct option: A:) Comedy
3. A ship is caught in a powerful storm, there is terror and confusion on board, and the vessel is shipwrecked. But the storm is a magical creation carried out by the spirit Ariel, and caused by the magic of Prospero, who was the Duke of Milan, before his dukedom was usurped and taken from him by his brother ____?
A:) Sebastian
B:) Antonio
C:) Gonzalo
D:) Stephano
springline- Correct option: B:) Antonio
4. Who is the king's jester, and Stephano, the king's drunken butler; who are found by Caliban, a monstrous figure who had been living on the island before Prospero arrived, and whom Prospero adopted, raised and enslaved. These three will raise an unsuccessful coup against Prospero, acting as the play's 'comic relief' by doing so ?
A:) Gonzalo
B:) Boatswain
C:) Adrian
D:) Trinculo
springline- Correct option: D:) Trinculo
5. Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, and two attendant lords (Adrian and Francisco). Antonio and Sebastian conspire to kill Alonso and Gonzalo so Sebastian can become King; at Prospero's command Ariel thwarts this conspiracy. Later in the play, Ariel, in the guise of a _____?
A:) Iris
B:) Ceres
C:) Harpy
D:) Juno
springline- Correct option: C:) Harpy
6. Prospero betroths Miranda to marry Ferdinand, and instructs Ariel to bring some other spirits and produce a masque. The masque will feature classical goddesses, Juno, Ceres, and Who will bless and celebrate the betrothal ?
A:) Iris
B:) Harpy
C:) Ceres
D:) Juno
springline- Correct option: A:) Iris
7. Ariel brings on Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian. Prospero forgives all three, and raises the threat to Antonio and Sebastian that he could blackmail them, though he won't. Prospero's former title, Duke of Milan, is restored. Who fetches the sailors from the ship; then Caliban, Trinculo, and Stephano. Caliban, seemingly filled with regret, promises to be good ?
A:) Boatswain
B:) Ariel
C:) Stephano
D:) Trinculo
springline- Correct option: B:) Ariel
8. A masque would begin with an ‘anti-masque’, that showed a disordered scene of satyrs, for example, singing and dancing wildly. The anti-masque would then be dramatically dispersed by the spectacular arrival of the masque proper in a demonstration of chaos and vice being swept away by glorious civilization. In Shakespeare's play, the storm in scene one functions as the anti-masque for the masque proper in Act________?
A:) One
B:) two
C:) three
D:) four
springline- Correct option: D:) four
9. The masque is a culmination of the primary action in The Tempest: Prospero's intention to not only seek revenge on his usurpers, but to regain his rightful position as Duke of Milan. Most important to his plot to regain his power and position is to marry Miranda to Ferdinand, heir to the King of Naples. The chastity of the bride is considered essential and greatly valued in royal lineages. This is true not only in Prospero's plot, but also notably in the court of the virgin queen, _____?
A:) Elizabeth II
B:) Victoria
C:) Elizabeth I
D:) Mary Queen
springline- Correct option: C:) Elizabeth I
10. Sir Walter Raleigh had in fact named one of the new world colonies ‘Virginia’ after his monarch's chastity. It was also understood by Whom and when The Tempest was first produced, as he arranged political marriages for his grandchildren ?
A:) Mary Queen
B:) Charles
C:) Elizabeth
D:) James
springline- Correct option: D:) Elizabeth
11. Prospero, keenly aware of all this, feels the need to teach Miranda—an intention he first stated in act one. The need to teach Miranda is what inspires Prospero in act four to create the masque, and Which is a primary lesson being taught by the masque along with having a happy marriage ?
A:) Value of Exploitation
B:) Value of slavery
C:) value of chastity
D:) Value of Forgiveness
springline- Correct option: C:) value of chastity
12. What could possibly go wrong with Prospero's plans for his daughter is nature: the fact that Miranda is a young woman who has just arrived at a time in her life when natural attractions among young people become powerful. One threat is the 24-year-old Caliban, who has spoken of his desire to rape Miranda, and ‘people this isle with Calibans’ and who has also offered Miranda's body to a drunken ________?
A:) Trinculo
B:) Stephano
C:) Adrian
D:) Francisco
springline- Correct option: B:) Stephano
13. It is not known for certain exactly when The Tempest was written, but evidence supports the idea that it was probably composed sometime between late 1610 to mid-1611. It is considered one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone. Evidence supports composition perhaps occurring before, after, or at the same time as he wrote _____?
A:) Coriolanus
B:) Cymbeline
C:) Merry Wives of Windsor
D:) The Winter's Tale
springline- Correct option: D:) The Winter's Tale
14. William Strachey's A True Reportory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Who was an eyewitness report of the real-life shipwreck of the Sea Venture in 1609 on the island of Bermuda while sailing toward Virginia, is considered a primary source for the opening scene ?
A:) Francisco
B:) Knight
C:) Iris
D:) Ariel
springline- Correct option: B:) Knight
15. Following the publication of Darwin's ideas on evolution, writers began to question mankind's place in the world and its relationship with God. Whose poem ‘Caliban upon Setebos‘ (1864) sets Shakespeare's character pondering theological and philosophical questions ?
A:) Robert Browning
B:) Thomas Sackville
C:) Sir Thomas More
D:) Robert Burn
springline- Correct option: A:) Robert Browning
16. The commedia often featured a clown known as Arlecchino (or his predecessor, Zanni) and his partner Brighella, who bear a striking resemblance to Stephano and Trinculo; a lecherous Neapolitan hunchback who corresponds to Caliban; and the clever and beautiful Isabella, whose wealthy and manipulative father, _____?
A:) Alonso
B:) Pantalone
C:) Francisco
D:) Boatswain
springline- Correct option: B:) Pantalone
17. Whose ‘long poem’ The Sea and the Mirror takes the form of a reflection by each of the supporting characters of The Tempest on their experiences. The poem takes a Freudian viewpoint, seeing Caliban (whose lengthy contribution is a prose poem) as Prospero's libido ?
A:) Robert Browning
B:) Sheridan
C:) W. H. Auden
D:) Thomas Gray
springline- Correct option: C:) W. H. Auden
18. The word ‘wise’ at the end of line 123 was printed with the traditional long ‘s’ that resembles an ‘f’. But in 1978 it was suggested that during the press run, a small piece of the crossbar on the type had broken off, and the word should be ‘wife’. Modern editors have not come to an agreement—Oxford says ‘wife’, Arden says it is_______?
A:) wife
B:) wise
C:) weep
D:) arise
springline- Correct option: B:) wise
19. Prospero may even refer to the Globe Theatre when he describes the whole world as an illusion: ‘the great globe ... shall dissolve ... like this insubstantial pageant’. Who frequently disguises himself as figures from Classical mythology, for example a nymph, a harpy, and Ceres ?
A:) Trinculo
B:) Stephano
C:) Ceres
D:) Ariel
springline- Correct option: D:) Ariel
20. Who was one of the earliest poets to be influenced by The Tempest. His ‘With a Guitar, To Jane’ identifies Ariel with the poet and his songs with poetry. The poem uses simple diction to convey Ariel's closeness to nature and ‘imitates the straightforward beauty of Shakespeare's original songs ?
A:) Percy Bysshe Shelley
B:) John Dryden
C:) John Keats
D:) Lord Byron
springline- Correct option: A:) Percy Bysshe Shelley
21. Prospero is a magician, whose magic is a beneficial ‘white magic’. Prospero learned his magic by studying in his books about nature, and he uses magic to achieve what he considers positive outcomes. Shakespeare uses Whom to indicate the opposite—evil black magic ?
A:) Boatswain
B:) Caliban
C:) Ariel
D:) Nymphs
springline- Correct option: B:) Caliban
22. Magic was taken seriously and studied by serious philosophers, notably the German Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, who in 1533 published in three volumes his De Occulta Philosophia, which summarized work done by Italian scholars on the topic of magic. Whose work influenced John Dee (1527–1608), an Englishman, who, like Prospero, had a large collection of books on the occult, as well as on science and philosophy?
A:) Agrippa
B:) Jan Kott
C:) David Hirst
D:) Robert Blair
springline- Correct option: A:) Agrippa
23. Ariel is a spirit too delicate to act her earthy and abhored commands.’ Prospero's rational goodness enables him to control Ariel, Who can only trap him in a tree and Whose magic is described as destructive and terrible, where Prospero's is said to be wondrous and beautiful ?
A:) Gonzalo
B:) Sycorax
C:) Ariel
D:) Caliban
springline- Correct option: B:) Sycorax
24. Prospero's magic hasn't worked on Sebastian and Antonio, who are not penitent. Prospero then deals with Antonio, not with magic, but with something more mundane—blackmail. This failure of magic is significant, and critics disagree regarding what it means: Who considers it a disillusionment for both Prospero and for the author ?
A:) Jan Kott
B:) David Hirst
C:) Robert Blair
D:) Thomas Parnell
springline- Correct option: A:) Jan Kott
25. Who suggests that the failure of Prospero's magic may have a deeper explanation: He suggests that Prospero's magic has had no effect at all on certain things (like Caliban), that Prospero is idealistic and not realistic, and that his magic makes Prospero like a god, but it also makes him other than human, which explains why Prospero seems impatient and ill-suited to deal with his daughter, for example, when issues call on his humanity, not his magic ?
A:) Jon Kott
B:) John Gay
C:) Ann Radcliffe
D:) David Hirst
springline- Correct option: D:) David Hirst
26. Shakespeare's romantic narrative appears in the characters themselves and the island setting. Often, romances involve exotic and remote locations like this island in The Tempest. The environment is the home for Prospero and Miranda. It is also the setting where one of the shipwrecked characters, Ferdinand, falls in love with Miranda. However, they are part of a knight and ______?
A:) Prince situation
B:) princess situation
C:) romantic situation
D:) serious situation
springline- Correct option: B:) princess situation
27. The Tempest was initially presented as a form of tragic comedy in the First Folio by John Fletcher of Shakespeare's plays. Another form of comedy that The Tempest creates is the concept of Greek and Latin New Comedy. Lester Whose article ‘The Tempest and New Comedy’ suggests that The New Comedy has to do in part with the narrative of slaves with the characters of Aerial and Caliban ?
A:) W.H. Auden
B:) William Becford
C:) E. Barber
D:) Clara Reeve
springline- Correct option: C:) E.. Barber
28. Like ‘The Comedy of Errors’, The Tempest roughly adheres to the unities of time, place, and action. Shakespeare's other plays rarely respected the three unities, taking place in separate locations miles apart and over several days or even years. The play's events unfold in real time before the audience, Prospero even declaring in the last act that everything has happened in, more or less, ____?
A:) three hours
B:) two hours
C:) four hours
D:) three and half hours
springline- Correct option: A:) three hours
29. In Shakespeare's day, much of the world was still being colonized by European merchants and settlers, and stories were coming back from the Americas, with myths about the Cannibals of the Caribbean, faraway Edens, and distant tropical Utopias. With the character Caliban whose name is almost an anagram of Cannibal and also resembles ‘Cariban‘, the term then used for natives in the ______?
A:) England
B:) West Europe
C:) East Midland
D:) West Indies
springline- Correct option: D:) West Indies
30. The play was one of the six Shakespeare plays (and eight others for a total of 14) acted at court during the winter of 1612–13 as part of the festivities surrounding the marriage of Princess Elizabeth with Frederick V, the Elector of the Palatinate of the Rhine. There is no further public performance recorded prior to the Restoration; Who states that The Tempest had been performed at the Blackfriars Theatre ?
A:) Shelley
B:) John Dryden
C:) Lord Byron
D:) John Keats
springline- Correct option: B:) John Dryden