Midsummer Night's Dream Anticipation Guide

What is the name of the play to be performed?

• The Most Lamentable Comedy and Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe

• The Most Lamentable Comedy and Cruel Death of Hermia and Lysander

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Twisted Love in Athens

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Why does Quince have so much trouble controlling the meeting of the mechanicals?

• Because he forgot why they are meeting

• Because he's too nervous about performing at the Duke's wedding

• Because Bottom keeps interrupting

• Because he's hungry

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What big event are these characters planning for?

• The fairy arrival through - through bush, through briar

• The wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta

• The funeral of Hermia

• Lunch at Quince's house

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What is the reason that Flute does not wish to play the part of Thisbe in the play Pyramus and Thisbe?

• He wants to be the lion.

• He does not like the play

• He has trouble learning lines

• He has a beard coming in

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What role does Bottom wish to play?

• Pyramus because it is the lead role.

• The lion because he can roar better than anyone else.

• Thisbe because he can speak in a perfect "little voice".

• He wants to play all the roles because he thinks he is the best actor among all the actors in the company.

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How does Quince, the director, argue against Bottom being the lion?

• He says he isn't hairy enough to look like a lion.

• He tells him that his roar would be so good it would scare the audience.

• He tells him that he will get to be a tiger in the next play.

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Who are "The Mechanicals"?

• A group of workers who also put on plays

• What the noblemen in Athens call themselves

• The group organizing all activities to celebrate Theseus wedding

• Hippolyta's bodyguards

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Who is the lead director of The Mechanicals?

• Nick Bottom

• Peter Quince

• Snug

• Starvelling

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What role is Nick Bottom set to play?

• Pyramus

• Thisbe

• The lion

• Pyramus mother

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What role is Flute set to play?

• Pyramus

• Thisbe

• The lion

• Pyramus Mother

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