The Tempest

This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. Who controls the fate of the ship during the storm?

A) the boatswain

B) King Alonso and Antonio

C) Prospero and Ariel

D) the sea gods

2. Who betrayed Prospero and usurped his throne?

A) Antonio

B) Sebastian

C) Gonzalo

D) Caliban

3. Who is Ariel to Prospero?

A) his guiding light

B) his son-in-law

C) his student

D) his slave

4. Why does Prospero arrest Ferdinand?

1. What does Antonio want Sebastian to do?

A) help him take over the island

B) help him escape from the island

C) kill Alonso and become king

D) search for the island’s hidden treasure

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