Thursday, June 28, 2007

More Test Questions

6/27/07

1)Significance of Caliban?
-anagram of cannibal
2)Why do we enjoy scapegoats?
-Expulsion, makes us feel better about ourselves.
3)How do you kill Prospero?
-Take his books, then he is nothing and has no power.
4)What does Miranda's name mean?
-Miracle or Wonder
5)Auden-"How we know what we think until we see what we say?"
-Words speak louder than actions, we need to write things down if we want them to live forever.
6)Significance of "Little more kin, less than kind."
-Pun on kin/kind
7) Symbol of innocence of experience in Tempest
-Miranda
8) Hamlet- what color are his clothes?
-black
9)Alchemy is thought of as transformation of metals to gold.
-Fraud: materialistic "money"
-True: philosophical-perfecting the human creature
10)Hamlet-Who are dumb and dumber? (spelled correctly)
-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
11)What is message of Gertrude talks back?
-see page 1334 for answer
12)Father forbids daughter from being with the man she loves.
-Senex
13)The Night Sea Journey
-story being told: journey of sperm to egg.
14)What real person is Prospero a metaphor for?
-Shakespeare himself
15)Master magician insists upon
-Disillusionment
-it's all just a dream/story
16)Name of Airy spirit in Tempest
-Ariel
17)Most question marks, Tempest/Hamlet?
-Hamlet
18)Tempest-Shakespeare's farewell play
-retelling of all other plays he wrote.
19)Theme of Hamlet?
-"The readiness is all"
20)Title Tempest is ironic why?
-There was no tempest, it was only their imagination.
21)Fishmonger
-a pimp
22)Playton says "our shoulders itch"-Onomnasius
-Remembrance/recollection of our winged state in beginnings (city of angels)

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