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

His treacherous brother Antonio usurped him twelve years before the play begins, with help from the King of Naples.

Q 02/05

Who is Prospero's treacherous brother?

A) Alonso

B) Antonio

C) Sebastian

D) Gonzalo

Answer · why

B) Antonio

On the island he conspires again, this time with Sebastian to murder the King of Naples.

Q 03/05

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

A) Naples

B) Milan

C) Tunis

D) Sicily

Answer · why

A) Naples

The court party was sailing home from Tunis when Prospero's storm caught them.

Q 04/05

Which airy spirit does Prospero free from a tree and bind into his service?

A) Puck

B) Oberon

C) Ariel

D) Iris

Answer · why

C) Ariel

The name means 'Lion of God' in Hebrew, and the spirit later appears disguised as a harpy and as the goddess Ceres.

Q 05/05

Which witch, banished from Algiers, imprisoned Ariel in a cloven pine before Prospero arrived?

A) Circe

B) Medea

C) Sycorax

D) Hecate

Answer · why

C) Sycorax

She never appears on stage; she died before Prospero landed, leaving her son Caliban behind.