The Tempest AP Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word best describes the tone established in the opening scene of The Tempest?

a) Whimsical
b) Hopeful
c) Snarky
d) Wonder
e) Dark

 2. The tempest is a symbolic form of an upheaval from a state of:

a) Nature
b) Peace
c) Harm
d) Disgust
e) Mother Nature

 3. The following sentence is an example of which literary device?
“Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice”

a) Satire
b) Symbol
c) Alliteration
d) Allusion
e) Repetition

 4. Examples of symbols in The Tempest
I. The Tempest
II. The Game of Chess
III. Prospero’s Books

a) I only
b) I and II
c) I and III
d) II and III
e) I, II, and III

5. Which one of these Shakespeare allusions is NOT an allusion in The Tempest?
a) Antonio to Claudius in Hamlet
b) Ariel to Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet
c) Prospero’s obsession with controlling his daughter’s sex life and choice of husband to Polonius and Ophelia in Hamlet
d) Miranda is a princess to Perdita’s discovery of her royal status in The Winter’s Tale
e) Prospero’s Masque to The Taming of the Shrew

 Answer Key: 1) e, 2) a, 3) c, 4) e, 5) b