Midsummer Acts IV & V

Why does Titania give Oberon the child?

• She wants to please Oberon

• She regrets her selfishness and wants to make amends.

• Oberon threatened her, and she does it out of fear.

• She no longer cares for him now that she has Bottom.

How does Oberon find Titania and Bottom?

• They are having a feast.

• They are playing with the changeling child.

• They are asleep in each other's arms.

• They are preparing for their wedding.

Why does Oberon remove the spell he cast over the queen?

• He has the boy and he pities her silly new love-pet. He wants her back to her true self.

• It was part of the bargain he made with Puck, and he has to live up to it.

• He can only cast one spell at a time, and he want to case one on someone else now.

• He had a dream that the gods would punish him if he didn't remove it.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

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Finding the two couples asleep in the wood, and learning of their more balanced love, what order does Theseus give?

• He tells them to wait a few years until they are older, and then marry.

• He banishes all of them from Athens for the trouble they have caused.

• He orders that they should follow him and Hippolyta to be married in the temple.

• He orders his men to find and imprison Puck.

What news does Bottom bring his companions?

• He has a part in the entertainment but the rest don't.

• Their play was not well-received, and they have been asked to leave.

• The Duke liked them but not their play. They are to write a new play and perform again the next day.

• Their play has been chosen by the Duke as an entertainment. They must now get ready and meet at the palace.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Who does Bottom play in the play-within-the-play?

• The moon

• all the parts

• Thisbe

• Pyramus

What do the fairies do after the palace goes to sleep?

• They go to sleep as well.

• Oberon sends them out to sing and dance and bless the new lovers on their wedding night.

• They go back to the woods to clean up the damage all the lovers had done.

• They got out and play tricks on the actors.

Who does Puck address at the play's end?

• He talks to Oberon

• He talks to the lovers.

• He talks to the playwright.

• He talks to the audience.

Did the lovers like the play the mechanicals performed?

• Yes, they loved it!

• They thought it was terrible!

This last speech has many purposes. Which of these is NOT one of them?

• It closes the play.

• It thanks the audience.

• It asks that the audience enjoy or else pardon a frivolous entertainment.

• It reminds the audience that the actors will gladly accept monetary donations after the play.