A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare probably wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the a) 1580’s, b) 1590’s, c) 1610’s, d) 1620’s, e) 1630’s 1590’s
Who is the Queen of the Amazons? a) Moth, b) Hermia, c) Helena, d) Titania, e) Hippolyta Hippolyta
Who is a weaver? a) Peter Quince, b) Nick Bottom, c) Robin Starveling, d) Lysander, e) Tom Snout, f) Egeus Nick Bottom
Who opposes the union between Hermia and Lysander? a) her mother, b) her father, c) her brother, d) her godfather, e) her sister her father
Who is taller? a) Hermia, b) Helena Helena
Who quarrels over possession of an Indian boy? a) Hermia and Helena, b) Theseus and Hippolyta, c) Oberon and Titania, d) Lysander and Demetrius, e) Cobweb and Moth Oberon and Titania
The initial setting is where? a) London, b) Athens, c) Paris, d) Venice,e) Naples Athens
Who is the master of the revels for the upcoming wedding between Theseus and Hippolyta? a) Bottom, b) Titania, c) Peaseblossom, d) Philostrate, e) Peter Quince, f) Egeus Philostrate
Who is directing the play about Pyramus and Thisby? a) Bottom, b) Titania, c) Peaseblossom, d) Philostrate, e) Peter Quince, f) Egeus Peter Quince
Puck is also known as ___. a) Robin Goodfellow, b) Iago Diego, c) Dr. Mischief, d) Mad Marvin, e) Merry Prankster Robin Goodfellow
In Act I, who says the following famous line, “The course of true love never did run smooth”? a) Helena, b) Hermia, c) Demetrius, d) Lysander, e) Oberon Lysander
In Act I, who loves Hermia? a) Lysander, b) Demetrius, c) both Lysander and Demetrius, d) neither Lysander nor Demetrius both Lysander and Demetrius
In Act I, who loves Helena? a) Lysander, b) Demetrius, c) both Lysander and Demetrius, d) neither Lysander nor Demetrius neither Lysander nor Demetrius
In Act I, Hermia loves a) Demetrius, b) Lysander, c) both Lysander and Demetrius, d) neither Lysander nor Demetrius Lysander
In Act I, Helena loves a) Demetrius, b) Lysander, c) both Lysander and Demetrius, d) neither Lysander nor Demetrius Demetrius
In Act I, Egeus announces that if Hermia disobeys him, she must enter a nunnery or what? a) be put to death, b) be exiled to a foreign land, c) be disinherited, d) be left to starve, e) be left at sea be put to death
Prior to the time of the play, had Demetrius ever courted Helena? a) yes, b) no yes
Lysander plans to run away with his sweetheart to the home of his a) mother, b) grandmother, c) widowed aunt, d) godfather, e) best friend widowed aunt
Who tells Demetrius of the lovers’ plan to run away to a nearby forest?a) Egeus, b) Helena, c) Hermia, d) Lysander, e) Titania Helena
Among the rustics in Act I, scene ii, who often uses malapropisms, such as “generally” for “severally,” “aggravate” for “moderate,” or “obscenely” for “obscurely”? a) Quince, b) Snug, c) Flute, d) Bottom, e) Snout Bottom
Who in Act II, scene i, says, “I’ll follow thee, and make a Heaven of Hell”? a) Demetrius, b) Hermia, c) Lysander, d) Helena, e) Oberon Helena
Why does Oberon want to arrange to have Titania fall in love with a monster? a) to embarrass her, b) to extort money from her, c) to force her into a loveless marriage, d) to kill her, e) to force her into exile to embarrass her
Who squeezes the love potion onto Titania’s eyelids? a) Puck, b) Oberon, c) Hippolyta, d) Theseus, e) Cobweb Oberon
Also in II, i, Oberon wants Puck to apply the love potion to a) Demetrius, b) Lysander, c) Hermia, d) Helena, e) Theseus Demetrius
Puck makes a mistake and squeezes the potion onto the eyelids of whom? a) Demetrius, b) Lysander, c) Hermia, d) Helena, e) Theseus Lysander
In II, ii, Demetrius and Helena speak to each other in what kind of verse? a) ballad format—abcb, b) terza rima—aba, bcb, cdc, etc., c) blank verse—unrhymed iambic pentameter, d) free verse—no set rhyme scheme and no set meter, e) rhymed couplets—aa, bb, cc, etc. blank verse
In Act III, scene i, who is responsible for Bottom’s having an ass’s head? a) Titania, b) Hippolyta, c) Puck, d) Oberon, e) Peter Quince Puck
In Act III, i, why have the rustics come to the forest? a) to hunt, b) to escape the sheriff, c) to rehearse their play, d) to escape their wives, e) to avoid working at their crafts to rehearse their play
Who in III, i, says, “And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays”? a) Titania, b) Bottom, c) Snout, d) Starveling, e) Puck Bottom
Who in III, ii, says the following famous line, “Lord, what fools these mortals be” ? a) Oberon, b) Titania, c) Moth, d) Puck, e) Mustardseed Puck
n III, ii, who anoints Demetrius’s eyes? a) Puck, b) Oberon, c) neither Puck nor Oberon, d) both Puck and Oberon Oberon
When Hermia returns in III, ii, she discovers that both Lysander and Demetrius now love ___. a) her, b) Helena Helena
What is Helena’s response to the new situation in III, ii? a) she is flattered, b) she thinks that everyone is mocking her she thinks that everyone is mocking her
Who in III, ii, administers an antidote to Lysander’s eyes? a) Puck, b) Oberon Puck
In Act IV, does Oberon ever get possession of the Indian servant boy? a) yes, b) no yes
Who in Act IV releases Titania from her spell? a) Puck, b) Oberon Oberon
In Act IV, scene I, Theseus and Hippolyta have entered the forest for what purpose? a) to find the runaway lovers, b) to hunt, c) to escape the festivities at court, d) to have a private rendezvous with each other, e) to visit with the fairy creatures to hunt
In IV, i, the Duke overrules the legal complaints of whom? a) Oberon, b) Egeus, c) Hippolyta, d) Titania, e) Philostrate Egeus
Who in Act V says, “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet/ Are of imagination all compact”? a) Bottom, b) Puck, c) Hippolyta, d) Theseus, e) Peter Quince Theseus
Who in Act V plays “The Wall”? a) Bottom, b) Snout, c) Flute, d) Starveling, e) Snug Snout
How many weddings are set to occur at the end of the play? a) one, b) two, c) three, d) four, e) five three
Who was anointed with the love potion but never had an antidote applied? a) Demetrius, b) Lysander, c) Helena, d) Hermia, e) Titania Demetrius
Who plays Pyramus? a) Bottom, b) Snout, c) Flute, d) Starveling, e) Snug Bottom
Who plays Thisby? a) Bottom, b) Snout, c) Flute, d) Starveling, e) Snug Flute
The hole in the wall is created by what? a) a hole in a curtain, b) a hole in a stocking, c) a circle made with Wall’s fingers, d) a circle made with paint on a piece of paper, e) by including a character named “Hole in the Wall” a circle made with Wall’s fingers
Does this play include any music? a) yes, b) no yes
Does this play include any dancing? a) yes, b) no yes
At the end of the play, the various couples presumably a) go to a feast, b) go to a ball, c) go to church, d) go to a court ceremony, e) go to their bed chambers go to their bed chambers
A major theme in this play involves ___. a) the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law, b) appearance vs. reality, c) church vs. state, d) males vs. females, e) royalty vs. peasants appearance vs reality
Who makes the final speech in the play, asking for the audience’s approval? a) Theseus, b) Hippolyta, c) Oberon, d) Bottom, e) Puck Puck
August 4, 2019