Where is the play set? | Athens, Greece |
Around which event is the play centered? | Thesus and Hippolyta’s wedding. |
Who is Hippolyta? | Queen of Amazons; Thesus’ wife |
Who does Hermia love? | Lysander |
Who does Helena love? | Demetrius |
What is the past relationship between Helena and Demetrius? | They don’t really have one; Helena likes Demetrius, but Demetrius doesn’t like her. |
What are Hermia’s choices if she refuses to obey her father? | To be killed or to become a nun. |
At what event do the tradesmen hope to perform their play? | Thesus and Hipplyta’s wedding. |
Who plays Pyramus? | Bottom |
Who directs the play? | Quince |
Why do Hermia and Lysander run away? | To get married. |
Why are Oberon and Titania fighting? | For romantic adventures with others, and over a little Indian boy. |
Why is Titania particularly fond of the little boy? | It is her friends, who died during childbirth. |
What is Puck’s other name? | Robin Goodfellow |
How has the flower from which Oberon extracts the love potion gained its power? | Cupid’s arrow fell on the flower. |
How does Demetrius learn that Hermia and Lysander are running away? | Helena tells him. |
What mistake does Puck make that that sets off the confusion among the lovers? | He put the flower juice on Lysander’s eyes instead of Demetrius’ eyes. |
Why does the tradesmen need a character to “the wall”? | Because it is said that they talk through a crack in the wall. |
Why does Bottom end up with an ass’ head? | Puck put it on him |
When Hermia wakes up and finds Lysander missing, what is the first thing that she thinks? | Demetrius killed him. |
How does Helena react when Lysander and Demetrius both suddenly declare their love for her? | She is mad because she thinks they’re mocking her. |
How does Hermia react to the discovery that Lysander no longer loves her, but not loves Helena? | She thinks Helena is trying to take his away from her. |
What are Oberon’s final orders to Puck in order to set things right and unite the right lovers? | To put juice from another flower on their eyelids to reverse the spell and make them think it was all just a dream. |
Why does Oberon decide to release Titania from the spell that he has put on her? | Because she said that she would give him the lovely boy. |
At the beginning of Act 5, why have Hippolyta and Thesus come to the fields near the forest? | To find the four lovers. |
Who convinces the plan to have the lovers believe that the night’s events have been only a dream? | Oberon |
Why does Egeus finally agree to let Hermia marry Lysander? | Because Demetrius now loves Helena, and no longer loves Hermia. |
Why does Philostrate advise Thesus not to hear the craftmen’s play? | It isn’t correctly played. |
How many weddings take place in the play? | three |
What does Oberon do at the end of the play? | Blesses the house. |
Who gives the epilogue? | Puck |
Who said this: “The course of love never did run smooth.” | Lysander |
Who said this: “I do but beg a little changeling boy, to be my henchman” | Oberon |
Who said this: “Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie, emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet, there my Lysander and myself shall meet.” | Hermia |
Who said this: “I will go tall him of fair Hermia’s flight. Then to the wood will he tomorrow night pursue her…” | Helena |
Who said this: “Yet I mark’d I where the both of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, before milk white, now purple with love’s wound, and maidens call it love-in-idleness.” | Oberon |
Who said this: “And even for that do I love you the more. I am your spaniel, and, Demetrius, the more you beat me, I will fawn on you.” | Helena |
Who said this: “Not Hermia but Helena I love: who will not change a raven for a dove?” | Lysander |
Who said this: “For thou, I fear, hast given me a cause to curse, if thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep.” | Hermia |
Who said this: “Me thought I was enamor’d of an ass?” | Titania |
Who said this: “Now, until the break of day, through this house each fairy stray to the best bride-bed will we, which by us shall blessed be; and the issue there create ever shall be fortunate.” | Oberon |
Who said this: “We cannot fight for love, as men may do: / We should be woo’d, and were not made to woo.” | Helena |
Who said this: “How low am I thou painted maypole; Speak; / How low am I? I am not yet so low/ But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.” | Hermia |
Who said this: “Get you gone, you dwarf; / You minimus, of hindering know-grass made; / You bead. You acorn.” | Lysander |
Who said this: “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, / Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.” | Oberon |
Who said this: “She was a vixen when she went to school; / And though she be but little, she is fierce.” | Helena |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Review
July 11, 2019