| What is one of the conflicts in the play? | (one of the following): the four lovers, Bottom turned into a donkey, Titania and Oberon fighting, the problem with Cupid’s love flower |
| Where does the play take place? | Athens and the forest around Athens |
| How would you describe the Tradesmen world? | dirty, dingy, busy, loud people, city noises |
| How would you describe the Fairy World? | Fast moving, no boundaries, bright, the earth in bloom |
| What is the conflict with the four lovers? | Hermia and Lysander love each other, Demetrius loves Hermia, but Egeus (Hermia’s father,) wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. Helena loves Demetrius even though he ditched her for Hermia. |
| Who are the main characters of the Athenian world? | Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, Lysander (maybe Theseus) |
| What is the conflict with the Fairy world? | Oberon wants Titania’s page, an indian boy, for his servant, but Titania was close to the boy’s mother before she died and will not give up the boy. Oberon orders Robin to put the love juice on Titania’s eyes and made it so that the next thing she saw was Bottom, as a donkey, and fell in love with him. |
| How would you describe the Athenian world? | orderly, structured, greek architecture and buildings, many laws |
| Is the Fairy world written in prose or poetry? | poetry |
| Is the Athenian world written in prose or poetry? | poetry |
| Is the Tradesmen world written in prose or poetry? | prose |
| Who is Robin and what was his mistake? | Robin is Oberon’s hobgoblin and does his dirty work for him. His mistake is that he puts the love juice on the wrong Athenian’s eyes and causes a confusion with the four lovers |
| What time period did the play take place? | the Elizabethan era |
| Who is Oberon? | the fairy king, husband of Titania |
| Who is Titania? | the fairy queen, wife of Oberon |
| What is the conflict with the tradesmen? | They try to put on a play called Pyramus and Thisbe for the Duke (Theseus) at his wedding, but Bottom goes missing in the forest and they don’t think they can go through with the play. Another conflict is with Bottom being turned into a donkey. |
| Who wrote this play? | William Shakespeare |
| Who is Hermia? | Daughter of Egeus, loves Lysander |
| Who is Egeus? | Hermia’s father who wants her to marry Demetrius instead of Lysander |
| Who is Lysander? | Hermia’s lover |
| Who is Demetrius? | Loves Hermia even though he left Hermia’s friend, Helena for her |
| Who is Helena? | Hermia’s friend who is in love with Demetrius |
| Who is Theseus? | the Duke of Athens |
| What is the happy ending to the play? | Hermia marries Lysander, Helena marries Demetrius, Theseus marries Hippolyta, Titania and Oberon are back together, and the fairies bless the three marriages |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream QUIZ
July 26, 2019