The Tempest

Question 1

Speed in scene is indicated through the reduction in sentence structure

Answer 1

‘If room enough’ / ‘have care’

Question 2

First line of the play

Answer 2

‘Boatswain’

Question 3

Predestination in Scene 1

Answer 3

‘His is complexion perfect gallows’

Question 4

Fate in the Lord’s Prayer Scene 1

Answer 4

‘The wills above be done’

Question 5

Boatswain seeing storm as a challenge

Answer 5

‘Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!’

Question 6

Hierarchy in the storm

Answer 6

‘What cares these roarers for the name of the King?’/ ‘remember whom he hath aboard’

Question 7

Empathetic Miranda

Answer 7

‘I have suffered with those that I saw suffer’

Question 8

Prospero checking Miranda/Audience is listening

Answer 8

‘Dost thou attend me?’ ‘Dost thou hear?

Question 9

Metatheatre

Answer 9

‘These our actors’

Question 10

Prospero threatening Miranda

Answer 10

‘One word more shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee’

Question 11

Ariel subservient to Prospero

Answer 11

‘All hail, great master’ ‘I come to answer thy best pleasure’

Question 12

Prospero calling Ariel a liar

Answer 12

‘thou liest malignant thin

Question 13

Caliban language

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Miranda first seeing Ferdinand

Answer 14

‘I might call him a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble’

Question 15

Ferdinand first seeing Miranda

Answer 15

‘The Goddess on whom these airs attend’/’I’ll make you The Queen of Naples’

Question 16

Miranda acknowledging her own ignorance

Answer 16

‘this is the third man that e’er I saw, the first that e’er I sigh’d for’

Question 17

Prospero stating if they fall in love too easily the love is weaker than if they have to fight for it

Answer 17

‘too light winning make the prize light’

Question 18

Gonzalo Utopia Speech

I’th’Commonwealth

Answer 18

‘should not be known; riches, poverty’

Question 19

Antonio persuading Sebastian to kill his brother

Answer 19

‘my strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head’

Question 20

Caliban to Sebastian and Trinculo

Answer 20

‘I will kneel to him’, ‘Be thy true subject’ ‘I’ll show you every fertile inch of the island’

Question 21

Caliban seeing lowly jesters and butlers as Kings

Answer 21

‘A most ridiculous monster to make a wonder of a poor drunkard!

Question 22

Ferdinand on Miranda compared to Prospero

Answer 22

‘ten times more gentle than her father’ ‘he’s composed of harshness’

Question 23

Ferdinand ‘jewel’ quote about Miranda

Answer 23

‘By my modesty, the jewel in my dower, I would not wish any companion in the world but you’

Question 24

Foreshadowing of wedding vows

Answer 24

‘Do love, prize and honour you’

Question 25

Miranda’s marriage demands

Answer 25

‘I am your wife, if you will marry me, if not, I’ll die your maid. To be your fellow you may deny me, but I’ll be your servant whether you will or no’

Question 26

Caliban - most beautiful lines of the play

Answer 26

‘The clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me, that when I wak’d I cried to dream again’

Question 27

Prospero is nothing without his books

Answer 27

‘First possess his books for without them, he’s but a sot’

Question 28

Gonzalo about the power hungry men

Answer 28

‘All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, like poison’

Question 29

Nurture/nature

Answer 29

‘A devil, a born evil, on whose nature, nurture can never stick’ / ‘Good wombs have born bad sons’

Question 30

Paradigm shift in Prospero

Answer 30

‘The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance’

Question 31

Miranda’s Brave New World

Answer 31

‘How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in’t!’

Question 32

Prospero giving up magic

Answer 32

‘my charms are all o’erthrown’

Question 33

Prospero epilogue

Answer 33

‘As you from crimes would pardon’d be, let your indulgence set me free’

Question 34

Prospero sees the malevolence in Caliban, in himself

Answer 34

‘this thing of darkness I, acknowledges mine’