Why has Theseus ordered a revel (festivity)? | he orders it because hes getting married and to celebrate his marriage to Hippolyta. |
Why does Egeus bring Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius to Theseus? | because he wants to give a complaint about Hermia; Egeus gave Demetrius his blessing to marry Hermia but Hermia wants to marry Lysander; he wants Hermia to either marry Demetrius or have her be killed |
Why does Theseus tell Hermia to come to terms with her father’s choice of husband for her? | because if she doesn’t she will die or never be able to be marry |
What is Lysander’s plan? | He wants them to take a horse and leave town and go to his widowed aunts house so that they can get married there |
Why does Helena want to be like Hermia? | Because Demetrius loves Hermia and Helena wants Demetrius to love her |
Why do Hermia and Lysander tell Helena the plan? | Because Helena complains that Demetrius only wants Hermia and to tell them that she won’t be around anymore and be left for Helena |
What does Helena intend to do with this? | She’s going to tell Demetrius so that he will be happy and realize that she gave him the info and make him fall in love with her |
What is Bottom’s reaction to his assigned role? | He wants to know who Pyramus is and he is going to act so well everyone in the audience is going to be crying |
What is Flute’s misgiving about his assignment? | He has a beard so he can’t play a women |
Why does Bottom want to play Flute’s role? | He wants to show his acting ability |
What is Snug’s worry? | He is slow at memorizing his lines so he doesn’t think he will be able to remember them |
Why does Bottom want to play Snug’s role? | He wants to roar |
What do Quince and Bottom caution about the role of the lion? | It would scare the ladies in the audience and if they scared them they would be executed |
How did Puck earn his reputation? | by playing pranks on both humans and animals (example: Pretend to be a stool and when an old lady goes to sit down he will vanish and she will fall; pretend to be an apple in a drink so that when the person goes to drink it all of the drink spills on the person) |
Why is Oberon angry with Titania? | because she wont give him the indian boy |
What is her argument with him? | because she told the boys mom that she will raise/look after the kid |
What is it Oberon sends Puck to find? | the flower (love-in-idleness) |
How does Oberon intend to punish his wife? | using the flower on her and making her fall in love with something hideous |
What does Oberon decide when Puck returns? | to have him use some of the juice from the flower on Demetrius’s eyes to fall in love with Helena |
How does Oberon instruct Puck to recognize Demetrius ? | by his Athenian clothes |
What is it Oberon hopes Titania sees immediately upon awakening? | the ugliest creature in the woods |
Why does Robin Goodfellow (Puck) anoint Lysander’s eye? | because he thought it was Demetrius |
Why does Lysander profess his love for Helena? | because he got the juice on his eyes and Helena was the first thing he saw |
What is Helena’s reaction to Lysander’s protestations of love? | she thinks hes joking and mocking her |
Why does Hermia awake? | she had a bad dream about a snake biting at her heart (irony) |
What is it Oberon realizes when he sees them together? | Puck put the juice on the wrong persons eyes |
How is this mistake to be rectified? | with the healing “remedy” potion |
Why do Hermia and Helena argue? | Helena thinks Hermia is mocking her too |
How does Puck manage to make Lysander and Demetrius sleep? | He mimicks the voices of the other and makes them run around the forest until they are tired |
What news does Oberon tell Puck? | That he has the Indian boy, to remove the spell from Titania, and change Bottom back |
What does Lysander answer when questioned by Theseus? | He doesn’t know how he got their but he tells his plan about eloping with Hermia |
Why won’t Demetrius marry Hermia as he had promised? | Because he is now in love with Helena |
What is Theseus’ decision? | He tells them he is over ruling Egeus and that they can all get married together |
Why does Bottom want Quince to write a ballad? | about his dream, “Bottom’s Dream” |
What is his advice to his fellow actors? | to get their costumes ready, the lion not to cut his finger, to have sweet smelling breathe |
Why does Theseus doubt the reality of the story the lovers tell him? | He thinks its all made up he said it was more strange than true |
There are two things that Puck asks the audience what are the two things Puck asks the audience? | If they didn’t like it pretend it was all a dreamIf they liked it to applaud them |
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Plot Review for Unit Test
August 25, 2019