Why is Bottom worried about the ladies in the audience? What solution does he offer? | He is worried because he thinks his acting is too good. That it would scare the ladies thinking he actually die. He offer a prologue to make asure the audience the actors are real. |
What problem worries Snout? What solution does Bottom come up with? | Snout is worried that the ladies will be scared by the lions. Bottom comes up with making Snout is roar quietly. |
Why does Bottom propose looking in an almanac? | Bottom is looking in an almanac to see when the moon will shine. |
Why does Quince decide to have Starveling carry a thornbush? | Quince decided to have him carry a thornbush so it can represent the moonshine. |
How does Bottom propose that Snout make the part of the wall more realistic? | Bottom propose to Bottom to make his fingers in a “v” shape, and to put some plaster on him. |
How does Puck play tricks on the actors in the wood? | Puck turns bottom’s head into a donkey’s. |
How does Bottom react when he realizes that he has the head of a donkey? | Bottom didn’t know he was wearing a donkey’s head ,and was curious why everyone was running away from him. Plus he thinks everyone is making fun of him. |
How does Titania react when she sees Bottom? What orders does she give her four fairies? | Titania reacts by falling in love with bottom because she was under a spell. She told the fairies to provide the needs of bottom. |
How does Oberon learn that Titania is in love with Bottom? How does he feel about that? | Puck told oberon that the she is in love with Bottom. Oberon is happy that everything is working out, and will now get the boy. |
How does Oberon realize that Puck has made a mistake and bewitched the wrong Athenian youth? | Hermia and Demetrius runs by togther, but Puck doesn’t recognize Demetrius. |
What does Hermia think has happened to Lysander? Why does she think so? | Hermia thinks that Demetrius killed Lysander. So Demetrius can marry her. |
On whom does Oberon press the magical nectar now? Why? | He puts it on Demetrius so he can fall in love with helena. To fix the problem. |
How is Titania showing her affection for Bottom at the beginning of this scene? Who else is present – unnoticed by her? | Titania is showing her affection for Bottom by caressing him. Oberon is there that she doesn’t know. |
What sort of music and food does Bottom request? | For food he requested for a honeycomb and for music triangles and spoons. |
How does Oberon get the little boy? | He asked Titania for the boy. Who was distracted by bottom. |
Why does Oberon return Titania to normal? | He got the boy now and felt jealous. Though he feels bad for her and want her to love him again, and so they can stop fighting. |
How do Theseus, Egeus, and the others happen to find the four lovers? Why is Theseus surprised by their appearance? | They are hunting on their horses in the woods. When they found the 4 lovers sleeping on the ground. Theseus is surprised because it’s the day hermia should announce her intentions. |
What would Egeus like Theseus to do? What does Theseus do instead? | Egues wants to punish Lysander. Thesues tell the lovers they can all get married. |
When they all awaken, how much do the lovers and Bottom remember about the previous night? | They remember everything, but it was hazy. |
What does Bottom plan to have Peter Quince write? Why? How do you feel toward Bottom, now that he is back to “normal”? Do you pity him? | Bottom plans to have him an epilogue. To explain his experience in the dream. I feel he is now back to selfish. I do not pity him because got everything from the fairy queen. |
Why are the tradesmen upset? Why don’t they just assign someone else the role of Pyramus? | They can’t find bottom, and since there is too many lines they need Bottom because he can do it better than anyone else. |
What news does Snug bring? How does this make the tradesmen feel? | Snug says their are two more couples getting married that day. The tradesmen were angry because if a wedding is going on. Then that means no one would come to the play. Which means no money. |
Why does Flute say that Bottom “hath…lost six-pence a day during his life”? | Bottom is losing a lot of money by not showing up. |
How do the tradesmen find out that their play has been put on the “preferred list”? | Bottom shows up and tell them. |
What does Bottom tell the others to do in preparation for the play? | To get prepared and to practice their parts. |
Who is married in this scene? | Theseus and Hippolyta, Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena. |
Why does Theseus choose Pyramus and Thisbe over the other shows he might watch? | He was told that the actors are serious in the play. He picked this play because he didn’t like the other plays. |
How does Quince manage to make the Prologue to the play unintentionally funny? | He makes the prologue unintentionally funny because his punctuation are at wrong spots. |
How is Hippolyta’s reaction to the players different from Theseus’s, at first? | At first she was embarrassed, but than joined in later. |
Why does Pyramus (Bottom) curse the wall? | Pyramus curse the wall because it stands between seeing thisbe. |
Why does Moonshine speak in prose instead of verse? What does he say? | He is unraveled because he is just a moonshine. |
How does the audience react as the suicides of Pyramus and Thisbe are being enacted? | They laugh when Pyramus dies, but doesn’t laugh when Thisbe died. |
What choices does Bottom give Theseus at the end of the play? What does Theseus choose? | He asks if Theseus would like see the epilogue of see a rustic dance or singing. He picks the dance because everyone is dead. |
Who enters as the newly-married couples go off to bed? What does Oberon give to each fairy? Why? | oberon and titania are going to bed. Oberon gives to each fairies magic dew to bless marriages and their future kids. |
What is Puck doing at the end as he describes the night? For what does he apologize? | He is sweeping which represent him going to fix everything ,and apologizes for to anyone who got offended. |
MidSummer Night’s Dream Questions act III-V
August 28, 2019