In Browning's 'Caliban upon Setebos', Setebos is:
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Correct answer: B. the brutal god Caliban believes in
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Sycorax's god (The Tempest 1.2), whom Caliban imagines as capricious and cruel like himself — 'natural theology in the island' (Dramatis Personae, 1864).
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