The Tempest Questions Explained

The Tempest Explained

a) is not correct because though magical, it’s not the main point
b) is not correct because the characters are hopeful despite the tone of everything being dark because of the storm
c) is not correct because the characters in the scene are snarky, not the tone
d) is not correct because it cannot be a tone of a passage
e) is correct because it uses pathetic fallacy

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

a) is not correct because a tempest is a part of nature and can’t be a drastic change
b) is correct because it’s the opposite of upheaval
c) is not correct because the tempest can’t be the opposite of harm
d) is not correct because a tempest can’t be the opposite of disgust which is a human emotion
e) is not correct because a tempest is part of nature

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

a) is not correct because it doesn’t represent anything
b) is not correct because mushrooms don’t refer to anything
c) is correct because it uses multiple m consonants
d) is not correct because it doesn’t symbolize a story
e) is not correct because it has epetition of m’s, but not of words

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

a) is not correct because all three are in the play
b) is not correct because all three are in the play
c) is not correct because all three are in the play
d) is not correct because all three are in the play
e) is correct because they all represent symbols

5. Which one of these Shakespeare allusions is NOT an allusion in The Tempest?

a) is not correct because Antonio is a brother searching for power like Claudius
b) is correct because nowhere in Romeo and Juliet is there magic besides the potion
c) is not correct because Prospero’s obsession is similar to Polonius and Ophelia in Hamlet
d) is not correct Miranda is a princess like in The Winter’s Tale
e) is not correct because Prospero’s Masque is the same as The Taming of the Shrew