TEST 31 - THE TEMPEST, SONNET 106, 116

In The Tempest, the first noble who insists the mariners do their jobs and says “What cares these roarers for the name of king?” is which character?

• Boatswain
• Master
• Gonzalo
• Antonio

In The Tempest, Prospero dates the usurpation and exile as occurring “twelve year since”; how old does Miranda say she then was?

• Not out three years old
• Full five years old
• Newly turned seven
• Barely two years old

In The Tempest, the island’s original claim is asserted with the line “This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother”; who speaks it?

• Ariel
• Caliban
• Prospero
• Stephano

In The Tempest, which spirit was imprisoned in a cloven pine by Sycorax until Prospero freed him?

• Ariel
• Ceres
• Iris
• An attendant nymph

In The Tempest, the song containing the coinage “sea-change” is which of the following?

• “Where the bee sucks, there suck I”
• “Come unto these yellow sands”
• “Full fathom five thy father lies”
• “The watchdogs bark, bow-wow”

In The Tempest, the precise list “brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea” belongs to another Shakespeare text; which trap option is true?

• It belongs to Sonnet 65, not this play
• It is Ariel’s harpy speech
• It is Prospero’s renunciation
• It is Gonzalo’s Utopia speech

In The Tempest, the conspirators Antonio and Sebastian first draw their swords to murder whom as they sleep?

• Alonso and Gonzalo
• Prospero and Ariel
• Ferdinand and Francisco
• Trinculo and Stephano

In The Tempest, who awakens the sleepers to foil that assassination attempt, and how?

• Prospero by thunder
• Ariel by singing in Gonzalo’s ear
• Miranda by crying out
• Boatswain by entering with lanterns

In The Tempest, which oath-phrase betrays Caliban’s “heathen” swearing?

• “By Jove!”
• “By Setebos”
• “By Hecate”
• “By Saint Nicholas”

In The Tempest, Miranda’s famous exclamation “O brave new world that has such people in’t!” is answered by Prospero with which line?

• “’Tis a mad world, my masters.”
• “’Tis new to thee.”
• “This world is all illusions.”
• “Our revels now are ended.”