Q 01/05

Prospero, the magician at the centre of The Tempest, was formerly the duke of which city?

A) Milan

B) Venice

C) Naples

D) Genoa

Answer · why

A) Milan

Milan. He lost it through his own neglect: wrapped up in his books, he handed the running of the state to his brother, who decided to keep it.

Q 02/05

Who is Prospero's treacherous brother in The Tempest?

A) Alonso

B) Antonio

C) Sebastian

D) Gonzalo

Answer · why

B) Antonio

Antonio. He never says sorry: Prospero forgives him aloud in the last scene and Antonio makes no reply, saving his only remaining line for a joke abou...

Q 03/05

In The Tempest, Alonso, who helped depose Prospero, is king of which realm?

A) Naples

B) Milan

C) Tunis

D) Sicily

Answer · why

A) Naples

Naples. The play ends by tying the old enemies together: Alonso's son is to marry Prospero's daughter, so the exiled duke's grandchildren will inherit...

Q 04/05

According to Prospero in The Tempest, 'we are such stuff as' what 'are made on'?

A) Dreams

B) Stars

C) Shadows

D) Stories

Answer · why

A) Dreams

Dreams. Prospero says it moments after halting the wedding masque in alarm, having just remembered that Caliban and his drunken allies are on their wa...

Q 05/05

Which witch, banished from Algiers, ruled the island and enslaved Ariel before Prospero arrived in The Tempest?

A) Circe

B) Medea

C) Sycorax

D) Hecate

Answer · why

C) Sycorax

Sycorax. She never appears on stage: she died before Prospero landed, and it is her son Caliban who insists the island is his by inheritance from her.