Tempest

Question 1

Prospero over Caliban (2)

Answer 1

1. Thou most lying slave
2. What I command, I’ll rack thee with old cramps

Question 2

Prospero over Ariel

Answer 2

1. “Pardon, master. I will be correspondent to command and do my spiriting gently”
2. “Come away servant, come!”

Question 3

Caliban > Stephano and Trinculo

Answer 3

1. “I’ll swear upon that bottle to be thy true / subject, for the liquor is not earthly”
2. “Possess his books; for without them he’s but a sot”
3. “When Prospero is destroyed”

Question 4

Boatswain shows control

Answer 4

“Silence! Trouble us not”

Question 5

Antonio about Alonso’s murder

Answer 5

“By that destiny perform an act”

Question 6

Miranda to Prospero about the tempest

Answer 6

If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them

Question 7

Prospero not doing his duties

Answer 7

Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough

Question 8

Caliban about being his own king

Answer 8

‘was mine own king’

Question 9

Miranda when first sees Ferdinand

Answer 9

There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple
=> what people look like same how they are

Question 10

Caliban about the music

Answer 10

sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not
=> Caliban can be emphatic

Question 11

Prospero says nurture will not fix Caliban

Answer 11

A devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick
=> Prospero says that no education will fix Caliban

Question 12

Prospero about enemies

Answer 12

At this hour / lies at my mercy all mine enemies
=> ‘mercy’ revenge or not

Question 13

Miranda about mankind

Answer 13

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in’t
=> naive and innocent

Question 14

Caliban about grace

Answer 14

I’ll be wise hereafter
And seek for grace
=> manipulation or forgiveness
=> civil or colonialists

Question 15

Prospero giving up magic

Answer 15

Now my charms are all o’erthrown, and what strength i have’s mine own, which is most faint.

Question 16

Ariel about hell

Answer 16

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

Question 17

Caliban about language

Answer 17

You taught me language, and my profit on’t
Is I know how to curse.

Question 18

Miranda offers to marry her

Answer 18

I am your wife, if you will marry me:
If not, I’ll die your maid

Question 19

Prospero’s last words

Answer 19

As you from crimes would pardoned be,
Let your indulgence set me free.

Question 20

Antonio’s reason for swords out

Answer 20

‘Herd of lions’

Question 21

Antonio loyal to the king

Answer 21

‘Let’s all sink wi’th’ king’

Question 22

Antonio mocking Gonzalo

Answer 22

‘The grounds indeed tawny’

Question 23

Antonio has no regret for what he did

Answer 23

‘And look how well garments sit upon me’

Question 24

Sebastian powers trips boatswain

Answer 24

‘uncharitable dog’

Question 25

Sebastian evil to Gonzalo

Answer 25

‘Save his majesty’ - mocking his utopia

Question 26

Sebastian criticises Alonso (3)

Answer 26

1. ‘he receives comfort like cold porridge’ 2. ‘the fault’s your own’ - loss of Ferdinand 3. ‘let’s take leave of him’ - leave him during Tempest

Question 27

Stephano says about Caliban

Answer 27

‘This is some monster of the isle with four legs’

Question 28

Alonso griefs (3)

Answer 28

1. ‘no, no, he’s gone’ 2. ‘i wish mine eyes would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts’ 3. ‘my son is lost and - in my rate - she too’

Question 29

Alonso does not have power in the Tempest

Answer 29

‘What care these roarers for the name of king?’ - boatswain

Question 30

Trinculo about social status

Answer 30

‘O King Stephano, O peer!’

Question 31

Trinculo describes Caliban

Answer 31

‘Half a fish and half a monster’

Question 32

Ferdinand refuses help

Answer 32

‘I had rather crack my sinews…than you should such dishonour undergo’

Question 33

Caliban praises to Trinculo/Stephano

Answer 33

‘Let me lick thy shoe’

Question 34

Ferdinand does not know name

Answer 34

‘What’s your name’

Question 35

Gonzalo being grateful (2)

Answer 35

1. ‘Be merry’ 2. ‘Few in millions can speak like us’

Question 36

Gonzalo’s utopia (2)

Answer 36

1. ‘Had i plantation of this isle’ 2. ‘No name of magistrate…riches, poverty’

Question 37

Gonzalo being loyal

Answer 37

‘Heavens keep him from these beasts’ to Alonso

Question 38

Alonso tries to drown himself

Answer 38

‘and I’ll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded and with him there lie mudded’