Scintilla | Midsummer Pop Quiz

A Midsummer Night's Dream was written by which playwright?

• William "Silly Billy" Shakespeare

• Christopher "Frat Boy" Marlowe

• Ben "Long" Johnson

• John "Johnny John Jimmy" Webster

Shakespeare wrote plays during which historical era?

• Elizabethan

• Jacobean

• Jacobean AND Restoration

• Elizabethan AND Jacobean

Outside which Greek city is the forest of Oberon and Titania located?

• Thebes

• Delphi

• Athens

• Corinth

Which of these IS one of the four human lovers?

• Helen

• Lysistrata

• Demeter

• Hermia

Hermia is in love with which human lover?

• Demetrius

• Lysander

• Theseus

• Nick Bottom

Which of the following is NOT one of the fairy servants?

• Cobweb

• Mustardseed

• Moth

• Dandelion

What is Nick Bottom's craft?

• A carpenter

• A plumber

• A weaver

• A tailor

What is the title of the Mechanicals' play?

• Love's Labour's Lost

• Troilus and Cressida

• Love's Labour's Won

• Pyramus and Thisbe

Into which part of the body is the love potion poured?

• The ear

• The eye

• The mouth

• All of it (a general sprinkling)

Why does Flute, the bellows-mender, not want to play Thisbe?

• He is too fat for the costume.

• He is mute.

• He cannot read.

• It is a woman's part, and he has a beard.