AMSND Test Remediation

AMSND Test Remediation

Multiple Choice

1. Puck gives Bottom the head of a donkey. This is an example of what form of comedy?

• Mistaken identity

• Reason and control

• tragic flaw

• allusion

Multiple Choice

The frequent mention of Cupid is an example of what literary device?

• alliteration

• allusion

• irony

• repetition

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of verbal irony?

• I’m here, full of anger, to complain about my daughter Hermia.

• Since your father doesn’t want him to marry you, you have to consider Demetrius to be the better man.

• Her father loves you, Demetrius. So why don’t you marry him?

• My lord, I’m just as noble and rich as he is.

Multiple Choice

In the beginning of the play (the movie version is different because it is set in 18th century Italy), Theseus defeated Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, in battle. Hippolyta was reluctant at first, but Theseus promised to win her over with a huge celebration and the promise to be his queen. Theseus and Hippolyta formed an alliance.

What does the word alliance mean in this example?

• a relationship of friendship

• a separation

• a relationship for mutual benefit or common purpose

• a relationship for money

Multiple Choice

An anachronism is an element not appropriate for the time period. Which of the following is an example of an anachronism?

• arranged marriage

• war

• Catholic nuns

• political alliances

Multiple Choice

The play-within-a-play as performed by the Tradesmen is an example of

• monologue

• aside

• tragedy

• parody

If love is a magical force, is it within our control?

Multiple Choice

Theseus says: You pretty lovers are lucky you met me here. We’ll talk more about this later. Egeus, I’m overriding your wishes. These couples will be married along with me and Hippolyta in the temple later today. And now, since the morning is almost over, we’ll give up on the idea of hunting. Come with us to Athens. We three couples will celebrate with a sumptuous feast.

What is the best meaning for the word overriding as used in the passage?

• more important

• less important

• extending or moving over something

• deciding against

Multiple Choice

What do the fairies represent?

• Nature

• Cities

• Dreams

• Love

Multiple Choice

How does the tone shift throughout A Midsummer Night's Dream?

• it is all serious

• it is all lighthearted and funny

• it starts out funny but quickly changes to serious

• it starts out serious but quickly changes to funny and lighthearted

Multiple Choice

In the play, love is characterized as an external, magical force. Egeus accuses Lysander of bewitching his daughter, as if Hermia's love for Lysander were a magical power that forced her to love him. In the woods, the flower imbued with the magic of Cupid's arrow is a concrete representation of the magical, bewitching nature of love, as people are literally put under love spells that cause them to fall in love with the first living creature they see.

The idea that love is characterized as an external, magical force, is best restated as

• Love only exists if it can be seen.

• Falling in love is outside of our control.

• Love brings pain like an arrow.

• Magical love is unpredictable.