Midsummer Night's Dream

What are Theseus and Hippolyta discussing at the play’s start?

• They are planning a party for the King.
• They are discussing their wedding, which is supposed to take place in four days’ time
• They are debating politics

Who does Egeus desire that Hermia marry?

• Demetrius
• Theseus
• Lysander

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What will be Hermia’s fate if she refuses to marry Demetrius?

• She will become a servant in her father’s house.
• She will be banished to the wilderness.
• She will choose to die or live as a cloistered nun

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To what do Lysander and Hermia agree?

• They will meet on the next night in the woods and escape to Lysander’s aunt’s house to be married.
• She will do as her father asks, but she will poison Demetrius soon after the marriage.  Then she will marry Lysander.
• They will stand together and defy her father.
• She will do as her father asks, but she and Lysander will run away from Athens where she and Demetrius will meet up together to marry, and Lysander will have freedom for his life, as well, in another city.

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Theseus is going to marry _________.

• Titania
• Hippolyta
• Helena
• Hermia

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Why is Oberon angry with his queen?

• She keeps a young boy as her attendant, and Oberon wants the boy for himself. She refuses to share the child. 
  
• She has much more money than he does, and will not give him the sum he wants to have available to use for his own entertainment.
  
• She has a book of spells that he wants to use, but she won't let him use it.
  
• She has recently put two of his companions in jail for mischievous conduct. He has asked             her to release them, but she has refused.

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On what mission does Oberon send Puck?

• Oberon sends Puck to find the parents of the young boy so they can rescue him.
  
• He sends Puck to cause a terrible storm that will force them to abandon their plan and return
  
• He sends Puck first to find the secret flower and then to anoint the "Athenian youth's" eyes as he sleeps so that upon waking he will see the maid and love her.

Upon whose eyes does Puck apply the potion first?

• He does Hermia's eyes.
• He does Demetrius' eyes.
• He does Lysander's eyes.
  
• He does Egeus' eyes.

When he wakes up, who does Lysander see and love?

• He sees and loves Titania.
• He sees and loves Helena.
• He sees and loves Hermia.
• He sees and loves Hippolyta.

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What is her reaction to his words of love?

• She thinks he is teasing her cruelly.
• She thinks he has gone crazy.
• She thinks he has gone crazy. She believes him and falls in love with him.
• She thinks she is asleep and having a nightmare.

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