A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Ms. Harris

Theatre (4A)

Multiple Choice

Test Question: ARE YOU READY ?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

When the play begins Lysander and Demetrius are both in love with whom?

• Hippolyta

• Helena

• Hermia

• Titania

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Why might Shakespeare have opened the play with Egeus’ complaint against Hermia?

• To emphasize Hermia’s lack of respect for her father.

• To introduce Egeus as one of the play’s central characters.

• To introduce early on the theme of passionate love defying all societal expectations.

• To introduce early on the theme of children disobeying their parents.

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Why are Oberon and Titania fighting at the beginning of the play?

• He is tired of her using Puck for her own errands.

• She is secretly in love with Bottom.

• She is angry that he is always meddling in human affairs.

• He wants custody of the Indian boy.

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The play opens with the upcoming marriage of which couple?

• Hermia and Lysander

• Oberon and Titania

• Theseus and Hippotyta

• Titania and Bottom

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What does Puck transform Nick Bottom into?

• A fairy

• A goat

• A woman

• A donkey

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What element in the play do the craftsmen think will frighten the women and perhaps result in the actors being hanged?

• The demons and goblins

• The fireworks at the end

• The lion’s roar

• The violent death of the hero

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What is Puck also know as?

• Harold

• Little Edward

• Robin Goodfellow

• Fool

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Who is chosen to play the lion in the craftsmen’s play?

• Quince

• Bottom

• Peaseblossom

• Snug

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Which of the young Athenians is first affected by the love potion?

• Demetrius

• Helena

• Hermia

• Lysander

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Which character represents the forces of disorder most?

• Puck

• Demetrius

• Lysander

• Oberon

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How are Helena and Hermia similar?

• They are both known for their height.

• They both challenge traditional female gender roles.

• Similarly confident in their value as a partner. lovers

• They are both in love with Lysander

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Who suggests that the audience consider whether the entire play has been a dream?

• Peaseblossom

• Puck

• Titania

• Snout

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Which character does Titania fall in love with because of Oberon’s potion?

• Bottom

• Lysander

• Peter Quince

• Demetrius

Who Said It?

Match the quote with the correct character.

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Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,

Could ever hear by tale or history,

The course of true love never did run smooth. (1.1.134-136)

• Puck

• Lysander

• Hermia

• Egeus

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How happy some o'er other some can be!

Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.

But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so.

He will not know what all but he do know.

And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,

So I, admiring of his qualities.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,

Love can transpose to form and dignity.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste.

Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. (1.1.232-243)

• Theseus

• Hippolyta

• Lysander

• Helena

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Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once.

The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid

Will make or man or woman madly dote

Upon the next live creature that it sees. (2.1.175-178)

• Oberson

• Egeus

• Demetrius

• Hermia

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Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,

Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,

And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,

Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,

Upon this spotted and inconstant man. (1.1.108-112)

• Theseus

• Demetrius

• Lysander

• Egeus

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Now, until the break of day,

Through this house each fairy stray.

To the best bride-bed will we,

Which by us shall blessèd be,

And the issue there create

Ever shall be fortunate.

So shall all the couples three

Ever true in loving be,

And the blots of Nature's hand

Shall not in their issue stand.

Never mole, hare-lip, nor scar,

Nor mark prodigious, such as are

Despised in nativity,

Shall upon their children be. (5.1.418-431)

• Hermia

• Oberon

• Theseus

• Edeus