Tempest: Acts 3-5

Complete the following sentences by providing a reason for each:

1. Prince Ferdinand is engaged in piling up logs of wood (in front of Prospero's cell)
because……….. or Prince Ferdinand cannot disobey Prospero's strict order of removing logs
from one spot to the other and pile them up because…………….

2. Prince Ferdinand finds his mistress weeping on the labour of piling up the logs
because……… or Miranda wishes that lightning may burn those logs of wood because......

3. Prince Ferdinand says that he would rather crack his muscles and break his neck
because…………

4. Caliban sees Prospero's magical powers over him as an instrument of fear because………

5. Stephano continues to focus his thoughts on Caliban, proclaiming that, when he becomes
king, he will either appoint the monster as his lieutenant or his standard-bearer because.....

6. Responding to Caliban's appeal, Stephano threatens to hang Trinculo on the "next tree"
because ……………..or after several warnings, Stephano finally beats Trinculo and asks him
to stand back because…………………..

7. Stephano immediately decides that he will kill Prospero while taking his afternoon nap
because……….

8. Stephano and Trinculo, afraid of the mysterious presence of the music played by invisible
Ariel, a "picture of Nobody", are mellowed down because………….

9. Caliban demonstrates a more subtle and, consequential to devise a deadly plan of violence
to kill Prospero because…………

10. Caliban seems to be more in tune with the natural harmony (tune of the catch) of the
island than Stephano and Trinculo because. his own countrymen, a fellow survivor after the
shipwreck because…………

11. Besides, their plot to murder Prospero, their sinful act not only leads them into the
bondage of the "filthy-mantled pool" but also into their moral, intellectual and spiritual
natures because………………..

12. Caliban believes and is completely confident that Stephano stands out in the task to do
away with Prospero and not Trinculo because ……………..
13. It is surprising that while on a strange island, Stephano is favouring a monster while
threatening because ………….

14. Caliban, in the event of killing Prospero, cautions Stephano that the first thing to do is to
take possession of Prospero's books because ………………..

15. Ariel tells Alonso about his lost son to the sea, and that there is no other way to escape his
doom, except by repentance and a sinless life thereafter because……………..

16. King Alonso has lost all hope of finding his son and thinks that it is a mere flatter to do so
because.......

17. Ariel condemns the "three men of sin" being like the men most unfit to live on the island
and should choose to either hang themselves or drown because........or Ariel speaks sternly to
these men, reminding them of their misdeeds and the awaited punishment they deserve.

18. Ariel claims that he and his fellow spirits are totally invulnerable to the swords drawn by
Alonso, Sebastian and the others because……………….

19. Prospero assures Prince Ferdinand that his austere punishment earlier in the scenes has
simply been a trial because…………….

20. Prospero presents Prince Ferdinand with a "rich gift," his daughter Miranda, but with a
subtle warning because …………..

21. Prospero considers his daughter to be far more "praise-worthy" because…………

22. Prospero tells Prince Ferdinand that his marriage with Miranda will prove barren and that
their union will be of an unhappy one because…………..

23. Prospero refers to the celebrations of the masque as "revels" because …………..

24. Prospero anxiously summons Ariel at the end of Act 4 Scene 1, informing him that they
must prepare for the coming of Caliban because. …………….

25. Prospero decides that all has been in vain in trying to civilize Caliban because …………..

26. At the close of Act 4 Scene 1 and their precarious situation of being distracted by the
"glistering apparel," Caliban reminds Stephano that "we shall lose out time" because ....…….

27. In Act 4 Scene 1 of the Tempest, Stephano threatens to turn Caliban out of his kingdom
because……………

28. In Act 5 Scene 1 of the Tempest, Ariel is sure that Prospero would sympathize with the
royal party in their afflictions because..…….
29. In Prospero's speech beginning with "Ye elves of hills..." he invokes the elves, demi-
puppets, and fairies to fill the air with some "heavenly music" because…………..

30. In Act 5 Scene 1 of the Tempest, Prospero thinks it proper to control his extreme anger
and give up the idea of taking revenge because………….

31. In Act 5 Scene 1 of the Tempest, Alonso's suffering has brought about a change that has
quelled his inner tempest because…………

32. In Act 5 Scene 1 of the Tempest, Prince Ferdinand is sorry to have exercised his choice to
marry Miranda without consulting his father because ………….

33. In Act 5 Scene 1 of the Tempest, Gonzalo feels that the voyage to Tunis has yielded many
good results because..........

34. Towards the close of Act 5 Scene 1 of the Tempest, Caliban recognizes his mistakes and
promises to "seek for grace" because, ………….

35. At the close of Act 5 Scene 1 of the Tempest, Prospero has no reason to extend his stay
on the island any longer because....................