The Tempest Summative Test and Answer Key

Conclude your unit on Shakespeare’s The Tempest with this summative assessment, which is delivered as a Word Document and a PDF. An answer key is included. Students will demonstrate comprehension of the following:

• Gonzalo’s general demeanor
• Miranda’s relation to Prospero
• Prospero’s intentions in terms of his magic
• Antonio’s past betrayal of Prospero
• Ariel’s role
• General characterization of Trinculo
• Caliban’s perception of Stephano
• Ferdinand’s captivity
• Prospero’s true feelings toward Ferdinand
• Ariel’s warnings for King Alonso and his men
• Prospero’s reaction to Ferdinand’s relationship with Miranda
• An interruption of wedding festivities
• Prospero’s tempting of the criminals
• Prospero’s perception of Caliban
• Prospero’s motivation for releasing his enemies
• A major decision made by Prospero
• Prospero’s motivation for not charging Antonio and Sebastian with treason
• Caliban’s dynamic character
• Arrangements for wedding entertainment
• Miranda’s offering to help Ferdinand with his physical labor
• King Alonso’s psychological state after the presumed death of his son
• Gonzalo’s fear regarding his peers
• Stephano, Trinculo, and Caliban’s collective behavior
• Caliban’s feelings toward Prospero
• Antonio’s feelings toward King Alonso
• Sebastian’s self-blame
• Act 1, scene 1: I pray thee, mark me–that a brother should / Be so perfidious…
• Act 1, scene 1: You mar our labour.
• Act 1, scene 2: …my library / Was dukedom large enough.
• Act 1, scene 2: Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, / Which is not yet performed me.
• Act 2, scene 1: That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in / the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and / glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with / salt water.
• Act 2, scene 2: I’ll show thee the best springs; I’ll pluck thee berries; / I’ll fish for thee and get thee wood enough. / A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!
• Act 3, scene 1: Poor worm, thou art infected! / This visitation shows it.
• Act 3, scene 3: I am right glad that he is so / out of hope.
• Act 5, scene 1: What a thrice-double ass / Was I, to take this drunkard for a god…
• Hyperbole
• Allusion
• Personification
• Oxymoron
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Sibilance
• Onomatopoeia